Natural hazards · Krebs

Krebs, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Krebs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Krebs?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Krebs to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding35%Wildfire21%Tornadoes13%Heat waves10%Hail6%Ice storms6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Krebs faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

21% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Krebs flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pittsburg County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

7storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Krebs

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KrebsDeclared for Pittsburg County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

3 households applied for aid

2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$44K to the City of Krebs for repairs

2015

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

6 households applied for aid $11K aid approved $74K to the City of Krebs for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$62K to the City of Krebs for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$151K to the City of Krebs for repairs

Pittsburg County has had 26 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. Krebs 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 Krebs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Krebs. 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.

Krebs, OK natural hazards

How exposed is Krebs?

What Krebs faces

Inland flooding

Wildfire

Tornadoes

Heat waves

Hail

Ice storms

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Krebs flood?

What’s been done with FEMA grants

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Severe Winter Storms

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

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

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

Severe Winter Storms

Severe Winter Ice Storm

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