Natural hazards · Antlers

Antlers, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Antlers comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Antlers?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Antlers to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding53%Tornadoes15%Ice storms9%Heat waves8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Antlers faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Ice storms

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 23 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Antlers flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pushmataha County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

89storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Antlers

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AntlersDeclared for Pushmataha County only

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

30 households applied for aid $40K aid approved

2013

Severe Winter Storm

$143K to the City of Antlers for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

5 households applied for aid $395 aid approved

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

$920 to the City of Antlers for repairs

Pushmataha County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

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. Antlers covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Antlers’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Antlers. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Antlers total about $1.7M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.