Natural hazards · Yeager

Yeager, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yeager comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yeager?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yeager to be higher than in 91% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding20%Wildfire19%Hail16%Tornadoes15%Cold waves12%Drought6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Yeager faces

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

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

19% of expected damage

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

Hail

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 32 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Yeager flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hughes County.

Disasters that hit Yeager

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into YeagerDeclared for Hughes County only

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

1 household applied for aid $25K aid approved

Hughes County has had 19 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. Yeager 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 Yeager’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Yeager. 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.