Natural hazards · Peoria

Peoria, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Peoria comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Peoria?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding44%Drought25%Ice storms7%Tornadoes6%Cold waves6%Strong wind5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Peoria faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Drought

25% of expected damage

Recorded about 22 times a year in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter 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 Peoria flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ottawa County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Peoria

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into PeoriaDeclared for Ottawa County only

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$6K to the Town of Peoria for repairs

Ottawa 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. Peoria 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 Peoria’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Peoria. 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.