Natural hazards · Brookside

Brookside, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brookside comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brookside?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding72%Lightning9%Wildfire8%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Brookside faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Brookside flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fremont County.

Disasters that hit Brookside

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Brookside itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Brookside.

Brought FEMA money into BrooksideDeclared for Fremont County only

2013

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid

Fremont County has had 11 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. Brookside covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Brookside’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Brookside. 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 Brookside total about $1.4M 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.