Natural hazards · Cokedale

Cokedale, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cokedale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very 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 Cokedale?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cokedale to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding48%Wildfire38%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Cokedale faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

38% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 Cokedale flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Las Animas County.

Disasters that hit Cokedale

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CokedaleDeclared for Las Animas County only

2006

Snow

$2K to the Town of Cokedale for repairs

Las Animas County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Cokedale 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 Cokedale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Cokedale. 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.