Clark County, KS Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Clark County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1955, NOAA has logged 40 tornado tracks crossing Clark County - one about every 1.9 years, which lands it in our Elevated band. Nationally, Clark County ranks at the 80th percentile for tornado frequency. Kansas has 105 counties in this dataset; Clark County ranks 67 of them by frequency.
Clark County's EF4-5 history
Clark County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 40 tracks split 35 weak and 5 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Clark County
For a Clark County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Kansas-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses Clark County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Kansas are common well beyond the tracked path. A battery-backup unit handles that without a generator's setup or fuel.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Clark County covers about 975 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. Clark County has about 1,873 residents.