Natural hazards · Crowder

Crowder, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crowder comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Crowder?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crowder to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought31%Inland flooding27%Tornadoes10%Wildfire9%Heat waves8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Crowder faces

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

Drought

31% of expected damage

Recorded about 28 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Crowder flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pittsburg County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Crowder

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrowderDeclared for Pittsburg County only

2015

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

2 households applied for aid $25K to the Town of Crowder for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$24K to the Town of Crowder for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$36K to the Town of Crowder for repairs

Pittsburg County has had 26 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. Crowder 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 Crowder’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Crowder. 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.