Natural hazards · Marvel

Marvel, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Marvel 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 Marvel?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Marvel to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding32%Avalanches31%Wildfire29%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Marvel faces

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Avalanches

31% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

29% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Marvel flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: La Plata County.

Disasters that hit Marvel

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MarvelDeclared for La Plata County only

La Plata County has had 8 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. Marvel 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 Marvel’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Marvel. 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.