Natural hazards · El Jebel

El Jebel, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in El Jebel comes from avalanches, 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 El Jebel?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in El Jebel to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches65%Inland flooding32%Everything else3%

By hazard

What El Jebel faces

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

Avalanches

65% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesTsunamis

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 El Jebel flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Eagle County.

Disasters that hit El Jebel

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into El JebelDeclared for Eagle County only

Eagle County has had 7 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. El Jebel covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to El Jebel’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to El Jebel. 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 El Jebel total about $9.8M 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.