Natural hazards · Blue River

Blue River, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blue River comes from avalanches, 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 Blue River?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blue River to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches88%Inland flooding9%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Blue River faces

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

Avalanches

88% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesDroughtTsunamis

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 Blue River flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Summit County.

Disasters that hit Blue River

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Blue RiverDeclared for Summit County only

Summit County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

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. Blue River 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 Blue River’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Blue River. 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.