Enter any address in Nuckolls County, Nebraska to see its FEMA flood zone
9 NOAA storm reports from this county describe what happened, in the words of the meteorologists who were there.
Nuckolls County, Nebraska has recorded 10 flood-related events since 1996 according to NOAA's Storm Events Database, including 6 flash floods and 4 river or area floods. The county has received 21 federal disaster declarations, 6 of which involved flooding or coastal storms. Enter any address above to check its FEMA flood zone designation.
FEMA Disaster Declarations (1973–2025)
Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.
| Declaration | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, And Flooding | Severe Storm | Aug 8, 2025 |
| Severe Winter Storm And Straight-line Winds | Winter Storm | Mar 18, 2025 |
| Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, And Tornadoes | Severe Storm | Dec 15, 2021 |
| Covid-19 | Biological | Jan 20, 2020 |
| Covid-19 Pandemic | Biological | Jan 20, 2020 |
| Severe Winter Storm, Straight-line Winds, And Flooding | Flood | Mar 9, 2019 |
| Severe Winter Storm And Straight-line Winds | Snowstorm | Apr 13, 2018 |
| Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, And Flooding | Severe Storm | May 6, 2015 |
| Severe Storms And Flooding | Severe Storm | Jun 1, 2010 |
| Severe Storms, Ice Jams, And Flooding | Flood | Mar 6, 2010 |
NOAA Storm Events Database (1996–2025)
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database.
| Type | Date | Damage |
|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | May 18, 2025 | 100.00K |
| Flash Flood | Jun 14, 2019 | 5.00K |
| Flash Flood | Sep 2, 2018 | 10.00K |
| Flood | Aug 29, 2016 | 25.00K |
| Flash Flood | Apr 26, 2016 | 150.00K |
| Flash Flood | May 6, 2015 | 500.00K |
| Flood | May 19, 2011 | 15.00K |
| Flash Flood | May 29, 2008 | 50.00K |
| Flood | Jul 4, 2000 | 100K |
| Flood | Jun 24, 1997 | 100K |
Flash Flood — May 18, 2025
Two separate rounds of severe weather impacted south central Nebraska on this day and brought a variety of severe weather.||The first round of thunderstorms produced a combination of wind and hail along with the first flooding rains of the season. The flooding rain was thanks to a combination of the slow movement and the intense rainfall rates over the same area. Though there was plenty of wat...
Flash Flood — Jun 14, 2019
For mainly southeastern portions of South Central Nebraska (mainly southeast of a York-Red Cloud line), this was an active Friday evening and early Saturday morning of thunderstorms. Things started out with a smattering of large hail reports before transitioning to mainly a heavy rain and relatively minor flash flooding event, particularly within western Nuckolls and far eastern Webster countie...
Flash Flood — Sep 2, 2018
A mesoscale convective system produced pockets of high winds and wind damage just after midnight on this Saturday morning. During the evening hours of Friday, scattered small clusters of multi-cell thunderstorms occurred over southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas. The clusters over southwest Nebraska were moving to the east and the clusters over northwest Kansas were moving northeast. Between...
Flood — Aug 29, 2016
In only a few hours' time between the late evening of Sunday the 28th and the early morning of Monday the 29th, a nearly stationary cluster of thunderstorms drenched much of southern Adams, northern Webster and adjacent small portions of Franklin and Nuckolls counties with 3-7 inches of heavy rain, at least temporarily halting a worsening drought (more on this below). Extensive flooding ensued ...
Flash Flood — Apr 26, 2016
Tuesday the 26th featured the first fairly widespread severe weather event of the year within South Central Nebraska, along with a few narrow-but-intense corridors of heavy rainfall resulting in flooding and flash flooding. The majority of severe storms concentrated within the southeast quadrant of the area (especially Nuckolls, Thayer and Clay counties), although a secondary zone of severe wea...
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database.
Source: OpenFEMA NFIP Individual Claims (2.25M records analyzed).
FEMA assigns flood zone designations to areas in Nuckolls County, Nebraska:
AE High Risk — 1% annual chance of flooding. Insurance required.
VE Very High Risk — Coastal flooding with wave action.
X (Shaded) Moderate Risk — 500-year floodplain.
X Low Risk — Outside major floodplains.
Properties in Nuckolls County, Nebraska that are in FEMA-designated Special Flood Hazard Areas (zones A and V) with federally backed mortgages are required to carry flood insurance.
Even outside high-risk zones, flood insurance is recommended. From 2014 to 2024, nearly one-third of NFIP claims came from outside the high-risk Special Flood Hazard Area.
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