Natural hazards · Vanoss

Vanoss, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vanoss comes from tornadoes, 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 Vanoss?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vanoss to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes24%Inland flooding22%Wildfire12%Drought10%Hail7%Cold waves6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Vanoss faces

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

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

12% of expected damage

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

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 33 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Vanoss flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pontotoc County.

Disasters that hit Vanoss

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VanossDeclared for Pontotoc County only

Pontotoc County has had 17 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. Vanoss 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 Vanoss’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Vanoss. 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.