Natural hazards · Bee

Bee, NE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bee comes from hail, 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 Bee?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Hail33%Inland flooding24%Tornadoes16%Strong wind10%Drought8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Bee faces

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

Hail

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 29 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bee flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Seward County.

Disasters that hit Bee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BeeDeclared for Seward County only

Seward County has had 17 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. Bee 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 Bee’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Bee. 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.