Natural hazards · Cheney

Cheney, NE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cheney comes from tornadoes, 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 Cheney?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cheney to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes39%Inland flooding24%Strong wind12%Hail11%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Cheney faces

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

Tornadoes

39% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 12% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Cheney flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lancaster County.

Disasters that hit Cheney

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CheneyDeclared for Lancaster County only

Lancaster County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Cheney

Cheney and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lincolnmostly tornadoesModerate

Cheneymostly tornadoesModerate

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. Cheney 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 Cheney’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cheney. 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.