Natural hazards · Norwood

Norwood, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Norwood 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 Norwood?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Norwood to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding46%Heat waves13%Wildfire13%Tornadoes13%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Norwood faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Wildfire

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter 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 Norwood flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cherokee County.

Disasters that hit Norwood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NorwoodDeclared for Cherokee County only

Cherokee County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

Around Norwood

Norwood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Norwoodmostly inland floodingVery high

Woodallmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Norwood covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Norwood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Norwood. 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 Norwood total about $1.5M 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.

Norwood, OK natural hazards

How exposed is Norwood?

What Norwood faces

Inland flooding

Heat waves

Wildfire

Tornadoes

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Norwood flood?

Federal disasters declared here

Norwood and the towns around it

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