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Natural hazards · Glencoe

Glencoe, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glencoe comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Glencoe?

75
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glencoe to be higher than in 75% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves28%Inland flooding24%Tornadoes19%Wildfire9%Hail6%Everything else14%
By hazard

What Glencoe faces

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

Cold waves

28% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Wildfire

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Hail

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places
Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Glencoe flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Glencoe isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Payne County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

17storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Glencoe

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlencoeDeclared for Payne County only
2025

Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds

1 household applied for aid
2020

Severe Winter Storm

$9K to the Town of Glencoe for repairs
2019

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

5 households applied for aid $33K aid approved
2009

Severe Winter Storm

$2K to the Town of Glencoe for repairs
2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

2 households applied for aid $6K aid approved
2002

Severe Ice Storm

$3K to the Town of Glencoe for repairs
2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$6K to the Town of Glencoe for repairs
Payne County has had 31 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.
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. Glencoe 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 Glencoe’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Glencoe. 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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