Natural hazards · Walton

Walton, NE natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Walton to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding30%Tornadoes30%Hail15%Strong wind10%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Walton faces

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

30% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Hail

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Walton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lancaster County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Walton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WaltonDeclared for Lancaster County only

Lancaster County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Walton

Walton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lincolnmostly tornadoesModerate

Waltonmostly inland floodingModerate

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