Natural hazards · Paxton

Paxton, NE natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paxton to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding31%Hail24%Drought18%Cold waves9%Tornadoes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Paxton faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hail

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 99 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter 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 Paxton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Keith County.

Disasters that hit Paxton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PaxtonDeclared for Keith County only

Keith County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

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