Natural hazards · Brook Forest

Brook Forest, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brook Forest comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brook Forest?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brook Forest to be higher than in 97% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire67%Inland flooding16%Hail8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Brook Forest faces

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

Wildfire

67% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Brook Forest flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Brook Forest

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Brook ForestDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 12 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. Brook Forest 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 Brook Forest’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Brook Forest. 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.