Natural hazards · Beggs

Beggs, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beggs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2022. 13 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beggs?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beggs to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding33%Tornadoes17%Heat waves10%Drought9%Cold waves8%Ice storms8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Beggs faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 26 times a year in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Beggs flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Beggs, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2022

$94Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Okmulgee County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

10storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Beggs

13 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BeggsDeclared for Okmulgee County only

2024

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

6 households applied for aid $7K aid approved

2022

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

26 households applied for aid $101K aid approved

2021

Severe Winter Storms

17 households applied for aid $4K aid approved

2019

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

6 households applied for aid $739 aid approved $467K to the City of Beggs for repairs

2015

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$41K to the City of Beggs for repairs

2015

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

23 households applied for aid $64K aid approved $37K to the City of Beggs for repairs

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$16K to the City of Beggs for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$3K to the City of Beggs for repairs

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$39K to the City of Beggs for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

2 households applied for aid $723 aid approved

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

2 households applied for aid

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$3K to the City of Beggs for repairs

Okmulgee County has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Beggs

Beggs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Libertymostly inland floodingVery high

Winchestermostly inland floodingVery high

Beggsmostly inland floodingVery high

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