Nebraska

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$205.3B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

35.19

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 93 counties

Hail

79.73 Avg Risk Score

Drought

70.05 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

61.69 Avg Risk Score

Strong Wind

51.1 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

49.35 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

49.12 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

43.83 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

39.89 Avg Risk Score

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

severe-storm 40 events

$74.7B

drought 8 events

$77.1B

flooding 4 events

$28.9B

freeze 1 events

$2.0B

winter-storm 1 events

$22.7B

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	Douglas	95.67	Relatively High	59.4%
2	Lancaster	92.81	Relatively Moderate	40.3%
3	Sarpy	88.16	Relatively Moderate	7.8%
4	Hall	84.28	Relatively Moderate	73.4%
5	Dodge	79.48	Relatively Low	51.3%
6	Buffalo	79.45	Relatively Low	38.3%
7	Dawson	78.81	Relatively Low	73.1%
8	Adams	77.03	Relatively Low	47.7%
9	Platte	75.25	Relatively Low	37.1%
10	Saline	70.92	Relatively Low	49.9%