Natural hazards · Brooksville

Brooksville, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brooksville comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2010.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brooksville?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brooksville to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes36%Inland flooding23%Cold waves11%Heat waves9%Hail6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Brooksville faces

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

Tornadoes

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% 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

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

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 weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Brooksville flood?

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

1paid claims since 2010

$18Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Brooksville 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.

Disasters that hit Brooksville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrooksvilleDeclared for Pottawatomie County only

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