Natural hazards · Okeene

Okeene, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Okeene comes from hail, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Okeene?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Okeene to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail19%Inland flooding18%Drought15%Ice storms13%Tornadoes12%Cold waves11%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Okeene faces

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

Hail

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

15% of expected damage

Recorded about 67 times a year in the area

Ice storms

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter 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 Okeene flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blaine County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Okeene

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into OkeeneDeclared for Blaine County only

2024

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

2 households applied for aid $26K aid approved

2019

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

1 household applied for aid

2015

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$12K to the Town of Okeene for repairs

2013

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$34K to the Town of Okeene for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $1K aid approved $8K to the Town of Okeene for repairs

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$60K to the Town of Okeene for repairs

Blaine County has had 27 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. Okeene 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 Okeene’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Okeene. 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.