Natural hazards · Lambert

Lambert, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lambert comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lambert?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lambert to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves34%Inland flooding28%Drought11%Ice storms10%Tornadoes8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Lambert faces

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

Cold waves

34% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 71 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

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Lambert flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Alfalfa County.

Disasters that hit Lambert

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LambertDeclared for Alfalfa County only

Alfalfa County has had 24 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. Lambert 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 Lambert’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lambert. 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.