Natural hazards · Longtown

Longtown, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Longtown comes from inland flooding, 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 Longtown?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Longtown to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding53%Tornadoes13%Wildfire8%Hail7%Heat waves7%Ice storms5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Longtown faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 54 years in the area

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Ice storms

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once 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 Longtown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Longtown 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.

Disasters that hit Longtown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LongtownDeclared for Pittsburg County only

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. Longtown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Longtown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Longtown. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Longtown total about $739K a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.