Natural hazards · Wauhillau

Wauhillau, OK natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wauhillau to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes12%Heat waves12%Wildfire10%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Wauhillau faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Wauhillau flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Adair County.

Disasters that hit Wauhillau

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WauhillauDeclared for Adair County only

Adair County has had 23 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. Wauhillau 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 Wauhillau’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wauhillau. 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.