Natural hazards · Sholes

Sholes, NE natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sholes to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding33%Hail18%Drought18%Tornadoes13%Heat waves6%Strong wind5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Sholes faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Hail

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 38 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Sholes flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Sholes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SholesDeclared for Wayne County only

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