Natural hazards · Rangely

Rangely, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rangely comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rangely?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Avalanches44%Inland flooding40%Wildfire7%Lightning7%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Rangely faces

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

Avalanches

44% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

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 Rangely flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Rangely, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 1979

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rio Blanco County.

Disasters that hit Rangely

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RangelyDeclared for Rio Blanco County only

Rio Blanco County has had 4 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. Rangely 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 Rangely’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Rangely. 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.