Kansas

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$251.6B

Total Economic Impact

105

Counties

39.06

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 105 counties

Hail

74.87 Avg Risk Score

Drought

68.67 Avg Risk Score

Strong Wind

62.91 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

59.45 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

57.23 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

57.14 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

56.78 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

53.21 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 58 events

$121.5B

drought 15 events

$114.8B

flooding 3 events

$10.7B

winter-storm 2 events

$2.6B

freeze 1 events

$2.0B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Sedgwick	94.88	Relatively Moderate	72.9%
2	Johnson	94.27	Relatively Moderate	6.0%
3	Wyandotte	87.18	Relatively Moderate	93.9%
4	Reno	84.92	Relatively Moderate	50.1%
5	Shawnee	80.37	Relatively Low	61.4%
6	Butler	80.21	Relatively Low	13.0%
7	Douglas	79.64	Relatively Low	36.0%
8	Barton	78.87	Relatively Low	70.1%
9	Saline	77.89	Relatively Low	50.1%
10	Riley	75.72	Relatively Low	56.7%