Natural hazards · Leon

Leon, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leon comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Leon?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leon to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought40%Inland flooding21%Tornadoes14%Strong wind9%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Leon faces

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

Drought

40% of expected damage

Recorded about 49 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Leon flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Love County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

6storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Leon

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeonDeclared for Love County only

2015

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

1 household applied for aid

Love County has had 22 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. Leon 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 Leon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Leon. 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.