Natural hazards · Swanton

Swanton, NE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Swanton comes from hail, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Swanton?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Swanton to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail31%Inland flooding30%Drought13%Strong wind11%Tornadoes11%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Swanton faces

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

Hail

31% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

13% of expected damage

Recorded about 27 times a year in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Swanton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Saline County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Swanton

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Swanton itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Swanton.

Brought FEMA money into SwantonDeclared for Saline County only

2009

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorm

$4K to the Village of Swanton for repairs

2004

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

9 households applied for aid $736 aid approved

Saline County has had 19 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. Swanton 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 Swanton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Swanton. 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.