Natural hazards · Salida

Salida, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Salida comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1995.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Salida?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Salida to be higher than in 97% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding92%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Salida faces

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

Inland flooding

92% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Salida flood?

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

1paid claims since 1995

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19952026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chaffee County.

Disasters that hit Salida

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SalidaDeclared for Chaffee County only

Chaffee County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

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. Salida covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Salida’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Salida. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Salida total about $3.2M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.