Natural hazards · Lewellen

Lewellen, NE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lewellen comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2011.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lewellen?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lewellen to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought28%Inland flooding20%Lightning16%Hail14%Cold waves7%Tornadoes5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Lewellen faces

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

Drought

28% of expected damage

Recorded about 77 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lightning

16% of expected damage

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

Hail

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

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 Lewellen flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Lewellen, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2011

$5Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20112026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Garden County.

Disasters that hit Lewellen

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LewellenDeclared for Garden County only

Garden County has had 9 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. Lewellen 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 Lewellen’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Lewellen. 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.