Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Storms, floods and disasters in Strong City
Strong City isn’t graded for hazard risk: Strong City has 488 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1985.
What Strong City faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Wildfire
Tornadoes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Strong City flood? Sometimes: 10 flood claims since 1985
Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Strong City, from FEMA’s records.
Strong City is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 9) for its flood-proofing work.
Insurance rates: Chase County.5 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Strong City
Disasters that paid out in Strong City itself (aid to households or repair grants to the City of Strong City), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2019Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding,landslides,and Mudslides$321K to the City of Strong City for repairs
- 2013Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding$2K to the City of Strong City for repairs
- 2010Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes$10K to the City of Strong City for repairs
- 2007Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding$18K to the City of Strong City for repairs1 flood claim paid that year
- 2005Severe Winter Storms, Heavy Rains, and Flooding$5K to the City of Strong City for repairs
Chase County has had 18 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then floods. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Clear dead leaves and brush within 5 feet of the house.
- Sign up for local alerts and know two ways out.
- Keep N95 masks for smoky days.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
- Strong City residents get 05% off flood insurance.
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Questions about natural hazards in Strong City
Does Strong City flood?
Flood insurance has paid 10 claims in Strong City since 1985, $126K in all.
Is Strong City in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Chase County, 0.7% of all homes carry federal flood insurance.
How much is flood insurance in Strong City?
Strong City is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 9), which takes 05% off federal flood insurance policies for its flood-proofing work. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Strong City?
By FEMA money that reached Strong City, Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding,landslides,and Mudslides (2019): $321K to the City of Strong City for repairs.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Strong City.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Strong City’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.