Natural hazards · Freedom

Freedom, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Freedom comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Freedom?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Freedom to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and drought.

Cold waves41%Drought19%Inland flooding17%Tornadoes7%Hail5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Freedom faces

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

Cold waves

41% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 79 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Freedom flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Woods County.

Disasters that hit Freedom

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FreedomDeclared for Woods County only

Woods County has had 20 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. Freedom 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 Freedom’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Freedom. 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.