Park Center’s biggest natural hazard is inland flooding
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Park Center comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1996.
What stands out about Park Center’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
How exposed is Park Center?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.
Rated higher than 250 of the 481 Colorado towns we cover.
Park Center covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
What Park Center faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Inland flooding
Lightning
Wildfire
Does Park Center flood? Rarely: 5 flood claims since 1996
Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Park Center, from FEMA’s records.
Park Center isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Fremont County.Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Fremont County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Park Center itself in FEMA’s records.
Fremont County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.
Get ready for what Park Center actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- When thunder roars, go indoors.
- Wait 30 minutes after the last thunder.
- Unplug electronics before the storm.
- Clear dead leaves and brush within 5 feet of the house.
- Sign up for local alerts and know two ways out.
- Keep N95 masks for smoky days.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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Park Center and its neighbors
How storm and flood risk compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its hazards.
| Town | Rating | Mostly | Flood claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cañon City | Very high | inland flooding | 2 |
| Park Center | High | inland flooding | 5 |
Rating = expected yearly storm and flood damage as a share of what’s there, vs. U.S. communities. Flood claims = paid federal flood insurance claims on record.
Most disasters here begin in April–June
The month each of Fremont County’s 11 declared disasters began, since 1953.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Park Center’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Park Center.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels. Across Park Center, expected losses total about $2.0M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Park Center.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Weather alerts: National Weather Service. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.