Andrew County, MO Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Andrew County, MO: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1957, NOAA has logged 25 tornado tracks crossing Andrew County - one about every 3 years, which lands it in our Moderate band. Nationally, Andrew County ranks at the 60th percentile for tornado frequency. Missouri has 115 counties in this dataset; Andrew County ranks 55 of them by frequency.
Andrew County's EF4-5 history
Andrew County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 25 tracks split 22 weak and 3 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Andrew County
For a Andrew County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Missouri-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
Power loss after a tornado outbreak in Missouri often reaches homes the storm itself never touched. A battery-backup unit covers the outage without the fuel and venting a generator needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Andrew County covers about 433 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Andrew County has about 18,091 residents.