Natural hazards · Fort Carson

Fort Carson, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fort Carson comes from inland flooding, 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 Fort Carson?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fort Carson to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes18%Hail11%Wildfire6%Lightning5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Fort Carson faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Lightning

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Fort Carson flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: El Paso County.

Disasters that hit Fort Carson

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fort CarsonDeclared for El Paso County only

El Paso County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Fort Carson

Fort Carson and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fountainmostly inland floodingHigh

Fort Carsonmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Fort Carson covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fort Carson’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fort Carson. 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 Fort Carson total about $2.8M 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.