Natural hazards · Baron

Baron, OK natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Baron to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes13%Heat waves11%Wildfire7%Ice storms7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Baron faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Baron flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Adair County.

Disasters that hit Baron

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BaronDeclared for Adair County only

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

Around Baron

Baron and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

West Peavinemostly inland floodingVery high

Peavinemostly inland floodingHigh

Baronmostly inland floodingHigh

Christiemostly inland floodingHigh

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