Natural hazards · Maskell

Maskell, NE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maskell 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 Maskell?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maskell to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding39%Hail18%Tornadoes14%Drought12%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Maskell faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Drought

12% of expected damage

Recorded about 30 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Maskell flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dixon County.

Disasters that hit Maskell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaskellDeclared for Dixon County only

Dixon County has had 15 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. Maskell 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 Maskell’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Maskell. 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.