Natural hazards · Mule Barn

Mule Barn, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mule Barn 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 Mule Barn?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding26%Cold waves23%Tornadoes20%Ice storms9%Heat waves8%Strong wind5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Mule Barn faces

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

23% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Ice storms

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 24 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Mule Barn flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pawnee County.

Disasters that hit Mule Barn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mule BarnDeclared for Pawnee County only

Pawnee County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often ice storms and severe 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. Mule Barn 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 Mule Barn’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Mule Barn. 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.