Natural hazards · Tamaha

Tamaha, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tamaha comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tamaha?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tamaha to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding24%Wildfire18%Tornadoes16%Drought11%Heat waves10%Hail5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Tamaha faces

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

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

18% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 22 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Tamaha flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Haskell County.

Disasters that hit Tamaha

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TamahaDeclared for Haskell County only

Haskell County has had 26 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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