Natural hazards · Stratton

Stratton, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stratton comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Stratton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stratton to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves38%Inland flooding22%Hail20%Tornadoes13%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Stratton faces

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

Cold waves

38% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Stratton flood?

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

Disasters that hit Stratton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into StrattonDeclared for Kit Carson County only

Kit Carson County has had 5 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. Stratton 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 Stratton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Stratton. 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.