Natural hazards · Hitchcock

Hitchcock, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hitchcock comes from drought, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hitchcock?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hitchcock to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought24%Inland flooding19%Hail15%Cold waves11%Ice storms10%Tornadoes10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Hitchcock faces

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

Drought

24% of expected damage

Recorded about 70 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

19% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hail

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Ice storms

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Hitchcock flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blaine County.

Disasters that hit Hitchcock

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into HitchcockDeclared for Blaine County only

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

11 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$3K to the Town of Hitchcock for repairs

Blaine County has had 27 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. Hitchcock 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 Hitchcock’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Hitchcock. 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.