Natural hazards · Hooper

Hooper, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hooper comes from drought, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hooper?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hooper to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought33%Inland flooding27%Avalanches20%Cold waves7%Earthquakes7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Hooper faces

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

Drought

33% of expected damage

Recorded about 77 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Avalanches

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Hooper flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Alamosa County.

Disasters that hit Hooper

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HooperDeclared for Alamosa County only

Alamosa County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Hooper 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 Hooper’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Hooper. 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.