Natural hazards · Green Mountain Falls

Green Mountain Falls, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Green Mountain Falls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Green Mountain Falls?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Green Mountain Falls to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding42%Wildfire40%Avalanches12%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Green Mountain Falls faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Wildfire

40% of expected damage

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

Avalanches

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamis

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 Green Mountain Falls flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Green Mountain Falls.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Green Mountain Falls 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 Green Mountain Falls

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Green Mountain FallsDeclared for El Paso County only

2023

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$125K to the Town of Green Mountain Falls for repairs

2013

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

4 households applied for aid $17K aid approved

2012

High Park and Waldo Canyon Wildfires

$10K to the Town of Green Mountain Falls for repairs

2003

Snow

$988 to the Town of Green Mountain Falls for repairs

El Paso County has had 16 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. Green Mountain Falls 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 Green Mountain Falls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Green Mountain Falls. 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.