Natural hazards · Avondale

Avondale, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avondale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Avondale?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avondale to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding49%Hail30%Cold waves6%Drought5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Avondale faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 88 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Avondale flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Avondale.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Avondale isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Pueblo County.

Disasters that hit Avondale

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Pueblo County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Avondale itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into AvondaleDeclared for Pueblo County only

Pueblo County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Avondale is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Avondale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Avondale. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); 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. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.