Natural hazards · Pettit

Pettit, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pettit comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2022.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pettit?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pettit to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding42%Tornadoes13%Heat waves13%Wildfire12%Ice storms7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Pettit faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 21 years 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

12% of expected damage

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

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter 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 Pettit flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Pettit, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2022

$13Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pettit 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 Pettit

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PettitDeclared for Cherokee County only

Cherokee County has had 21 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. Pettit covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pettit’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pettit. 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 Pettit total about $1.6M 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.