Natural hazards · Sharon

Sharon, OK natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sharon to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding31%Wildfire14%Drought14%Cold waves12%Tornadoes8%Heat waves7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Sharon faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

14% of expected damage

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

Drought

14% of expected damage

Recorded about 98 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Sharon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Woodward County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Sharon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SharonDeclared for Woodward County only

Woodward County has had 27 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Sharon 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 Sharon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Sharon. 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.