Natural hazards · Welling

Welling, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Welling comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Welling?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Welling to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Heat waves11%Tornadoes10%Wildfire9%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Welling faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Wildfire

9% 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 Welling flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cherokee County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Welling

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WellingDeclared for Cherokee County only

2022

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

5 households applied for aid $23K aid approved

2021

Severe Winter Storms

1 household applied for aid

Cherokee County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

Around Welling

Welling and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wellingmostly inland floodingVery high

Briggsmostly inland floodingVery high

Eldonmostly inland floodingVery high

Park Hillmostly inland floodingHigh

Caneymostly inland floodingModerate

Ettamostly 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. Welling 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 Welling’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Welling. 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.