Natural hazards · Katie

Katie, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Katie comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Katie?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding26%Tornadoes25%Wildfire9%Drought8%Hail7%Strong wind7%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Katie faces

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

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

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 44 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Katie flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Garvin County.

Disasters that hit Katie

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KatieDeclared for Garvin County only

Garvin County has had 25 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. Katie 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 Katie’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Katie. 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.