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Sperry, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sperry comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1985. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Sperry?

69
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sperry to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding54%Heat waves22%Tornadoes9%Everything else15%
By hazard

What Sperry faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

22% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places
Recorded about 26 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 54 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Sperry flood?

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

5paid claims since 1985
$16Kpaid to owners
1homes flooded more than once
19852026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Sperry isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Tulsa County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

33storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Sperry

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SperryDeclared for Tulsa County only
2022

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

5 households applied for aid
2021

Severe Winter Storms

14 households applied for aid $4K aid approved
2019

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

66 households applied for aid $220K aid approved $12K to the Town of Sperry for repairs
2015

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

2 households applied for aid
2007

Severe Winter Storms

$109K to the Town of Sperry for repairs
2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

4 households applied for aid $11K aid approved
2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$6K to the Town of Sperry for repairs
Tulsa County has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Sperry

Sperry and the towns around it

Sand Springs: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSkiatook: High, mostly inland floodingTulsa: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWestport: Very high, mostly inland floodingMannford: Moderate, mostly inland floodingOakhurst: High, mostly inland floodingSapulpa: High, mostly inland floodingFair Oaks: High, mostly inland floodingTurley: High, mostly inland floodingBroken Arrow: Moderate, mostly inland floodingJenks: High, mostly inland floodingBixby: High, mostly inland floodingCatoosa: Low, mostly inland floodingSperry: High, mostly inland flooding SperrySand SpringsSkiatookTulsa
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Skiatookmostly inland floodingHigh
Sperrymostly inland floodingHigh
Tulsamostly inland floodingModerate
Sand Springsmostly inland floodingModerate
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. Sperry 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 Sperry’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Sperry. 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.

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