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Natural hazards · Crescent

Crescent, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crescent comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1987. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Crescent?

80
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

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

Cold waves23%Inland flooding22%Tornadoes22%Drought15%Heat waves6%Everything else12%
By hazard

What Crescent faces

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

Cold waves

23% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Drought

15% of expected damage
Recorded about 47 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places
Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Crescent flood?

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

3paid claims since 1987
$107Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19872026

Biggest named events

  • Early summer storms: 1 claim, $105K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Crescent isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Logan County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

70storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Crescent

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrescentDeclared for Logan County only
2020

Severe Winter Storm

$135K to the City of Crescent for repairs
2019

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

47 households applied for aid $199K aid approved $81K to the City of Crescent for repairs
2015

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$108K to the City of Crescent for repairs
2015

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

4 households applied for aid $33K aid approved
2011

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

1 household applied for aid $1K aid approved
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$11K to the City of Crescent for repairs
2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

$4K to the City of Crescent for repairs
2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

9 households applied for aid $12K aid approved $16K to the City of Crescent for repairs
2003

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

1 household applied for aid $4K aid approved
2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$105K to the City of Crescent for repairs
Logan County has had 37 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. Crescent 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 Crescent’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Crescent. 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.

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