Kingfisher County, Oklahoma: hazard history

FEMA declared 35 disasters that named Kingfisher County between 1973 and 2021.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3555 2021 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-4587 2021 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storms
• DR-4575 2020 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-4530 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• EM-3462 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4438 2019 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, And Flooding
• DR-4256 2015 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storms And Flooding
• DR-4247 2015 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storms And Flooding
• DR-4222 2015 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, And Flooding
• DR-4109 2013 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm

Not counted above: 40 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Oklahoma. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone.

NOAA storm event records in Kingfisher County each year. The busiest year was 2023, with 73 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Ice Storm · Jan 30, 2002$25.0M
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · NOAA record 5277192
2. Tornado · May 3, 1999$2.5M
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · 1 death · 11 injuries · NOAA record 5705860
3. Ice Storm · Dec 27, 2015$2.2M
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · NOAA record 608104
4. Hail · Apr 21, 1999$1.0M
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · NOAA record 5696601
5. Flash Flood · Aug 19, 2007$500K
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · 1 death · NOAA record 58255

Deadliest records

1. Tornado · May 3, 19991 death
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · $2.5M damage · 11 injuries · NOAA record 5705860
2. Thunderstorm Wind · Jul 6, 20041 death
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · $10K damage · NOAA record 5413759
3. Flash Flood · Aug 19, 20071 death
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · $500K damage · NOAA record 58255
4. Winter Weather · Feb 8, 20211 death
   NOAA name: KINGFISHER · NOAA record 944448

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $5.1M on 295 claims in Kingfisher County from 1980 to 2019.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Kingfisher County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Kingfisher County when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for Oklahoma yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: KINGFISHER. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 0% of Oklahoma's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.