Natural hazards · Manitou

Manitou, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Manitou comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Manitou?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Manitou to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought44%Inland flooding15%Hail9%Cold waves9%Tornadoes8%Strong wind7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Manitou faces

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

Drought

44% of expected damage

Recorded about 127 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Manitou flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tillman County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Manitou

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into ManitouDeclared for Tillman County only

2015

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

2 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

2010

Severe Winter Storm

$5K to the Town of Manitou for repairs

2009

Severe Winter Storm

$839 to the Town of Manitou for repairs

Tillman County has had 30 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. Manitou 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 Manitou’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Manitou. 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.

Manitou, OK natural hazards

How exposed is Manitou?

What Manitou faces

Drought

Inland flooding

Hail

Cold waves

Tornadoes

Strong wind

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Manitou flood?

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Severe Winter Storm

Severe Winter Storm

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