Natural hazards · Asher

Asher, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Asher comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Asher?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Tornadoes32%Inland flooding27%Cold waves11%Heat waves8%Wildfire8%Hail6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Asher faces

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

Tornadoes

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

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

Hail

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Asher flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pottawatomie County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Asher

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AsherDeclared for Pottawatomie County only

2024

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

2 households applied for aid

2023

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Tornadoes

1 household applied for aid

2015

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

13 households applied for aid $16K aid approved

2013

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$9K to the Town of Asher for repairs

2010

Severe Winter Storm

$5K to the Town of Asher for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $355 aid approved

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

8 households applied for aid $585 aid approved

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

4 households applied for aid $26K aid approved

2003

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

4 households applied for aid

Pottawatomie County has had 34 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. Asher 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 Asher’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Asher. 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.