Natural hazards · La Veta

La Veta, CO natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in La Veta to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding75%Wildfire18%Everything else8%

By hazard

What La Veta faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 La Veta flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Huerfano County.

Disasters that hit La Veta

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into La VetaDeclared for Huerfano County only

Huerfano County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. La Veta 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 La Veta’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of La Veta. 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.