Natural hazards · Verdigris

Verdigris, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Verdigris comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 2015.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Verdigris?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Verdigris to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding45%Heat waves15%Tornadoes11%Cold waves10%Ice storms8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Verdigris faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 73 years in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Ice storms

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Verdigris flood?

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

7paid claims since 2015

$80Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

20152026

Biggest named events

Early summer storms: 1 claim, $2K
Early winter storms: 1 claim, $4K

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. Verdigris isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Rogers County.

Disasters that hit Verdigris

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VerdigrisDeclared for Rogers County only

Rogers County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

Around Verdigris

Verdigris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Claremoremostly inland floodingHigh

Verdigrismostly 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. Verdigris covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Verdigris’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Verdigris. 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 Verdigris 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.