Natural hazards · Jennings

Jennings, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jennings comes from cold waves, 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 Jennings?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jennings to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and tornadoes.

Cold waves24%Tornadoes21%Inland flooding18%Wildfire11%Heat waves8%Ice storms8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Jennings faces

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

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

11% 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 24 times a year in the area

Ice storms

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Jennings flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pawnee County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

17storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Jennings

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into JenningsDeclared for Pawnee County only

2025

Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds

1 household applied for aid

2019

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

3 households applied for aid $36K aid approved

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$17K to the Town of Jennings for repairs

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

1 household applied for aid

Pawnee County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often ice storms and severe 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. Jennings 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 Jennings’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Jennings. 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.