Natural hazards · Security-Widefield

Security-Widefield, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Security-Widefield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 19 claims here since 1998.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Security-Widefield?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Security-Widefield to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Tornadoes12%Hail7%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Security-Widefield faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Security-Widefield flood?

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

19paid claims since 1998

$112Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

Biggest named events

Late summer storms: 1 claim, $5K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: El Paso County.

Disasters that hit Security-Widefield

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for El Paso County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Security-Widefield itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Security-WidefieldDeclared for El Paso County only

El Paso County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Security-Widefield

Security-Widefield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fountainmostly inland floodingHigh

Stratmoormostly inland floodingHigh

Security-Widefieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Colorado Springsmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Security-Widefield covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Security-Widefield’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Security-Widefield. 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 Security-Widefield total about $6.5M 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.