Missouri

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$344.4B

Total Economic Impact

115

Counties

51.99

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 115 counties

Heat Wave

83.3 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

72.14 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

64.95 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

63.42 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

62.62 Avg Risk Score

Strong Wind

59.65 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

56.67 Avg Risk Score

Drought

54.84 Avg Risk Score

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

severe-storm 70 events

$168.7B

drought 10 events

$79.5B

flooding 8 events

$36.1B

winter-storm 5 events

$28.1B

freeze 1 events

$2.0B

tropical-cyclone 1 events

$30.0B

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	St. Louis	98.54	Relatively High	34.0%
2	Jackson	95.61	Relatively High	68.7%
3	St. Louis	95.35	Relatively Moderate	81.4%
4	St. Charles	93.0	Relatively Moderate	3.4%
5	Greene	91.41	Relatively Moderate	53.2%
6	Scott	87.81	Relatively Moderate	66.5%
7	Cape Girardeau	87.34	Relatively Moderate	31.0%
8	Jefferson	87.21	Relatively Moderate	11.4%
9	Butler	86.99	Relatively Moderate	84.1%
10	Clay	86.89	Relatively Moderate	26.9%