Natural hazards · Mountain View

Mountain View, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mountain View comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mountain View?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mountain View to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding56%Hail24%Tornadoes9%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Mountain View faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic 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 Mountain View flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Mountain View

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mountain ViewDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Mountain View

Mountain View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wheat Ridgemostly inland floodingVery high

Mountain Viewmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Mountain View 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 Mountain View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Mountain View. 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.