Natural hazards · Whiteside

Whiteside, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Whiteside comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Whiteside?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Whiteside to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding55%Heat waves13%Tornadoes10%Cold waves8%Strong wind5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Whiteside faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Whiteside flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Whiteside.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Whiteside isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Whiteside

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Lincoln County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Whiteside itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into WhitesideDeclared for Lincoln County only

Lincoln County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Whiteside is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Whiteside’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Whiteside. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.