Natural hazards · Redstone

Redstone, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Redstone comes from avalanches, 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 Redstone?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Redstone to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches75%Inland flooding21%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Redstone faces

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

Avalanches

75% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesTsunamis

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 Redstone flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pitkin County.

Disasters that hit Redstone

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RedstoneDeclared for Pitkin County only

Pitkin County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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. Redstone 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 Redstone’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Redstone. 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.