Natural hazards · Bushnell

Bushnell, NE natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bushnell?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bushnell to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding26%Hail23%Drought22%Tornadoes8%Cold waves6%Ice storms6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Bushnell faces

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Drought

22% of expected damage

Recorded about 78 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

Winter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Bushnell flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kimball County.

Disasters that hit Bushnell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BushnellDeclared for Kimball County only

Kimball County has had 6 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. Bushnell 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 Bushnell’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Bushnell. 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.