Natural hazards · Eckley

Eckley, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Eckley comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Eckley?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Eckley to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and hail.

Cold waves45%Hail20%Inland flooding14%Strong wind9%Tornadoes8%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Eckley faces

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

Cold waves

45% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Hail

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Eckley flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yuma County.

Disasters that hit Eckley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EckleyDeclared for Yuma County only

Yuma County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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