Natural hazards · Blende

Blende, CO natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Blende?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blende to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding55%Hail17%Cold waves10%Tornadoes6%Lightning5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Blende faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Lightning

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Blende flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Blende 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 Blende

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BlendeDeclared 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. Blende covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Blende total about $853K a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.