Natural hazards · Swink

Swink, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Swink comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Swink?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Swink to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding60%Cold waves9%Lightning7%Drought6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Swink faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 80 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

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 Swink flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Otero County.

Disasters that hit Swink

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Swink itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Swink.

Brought FEMA money into SwinkDeclared for Otero County only

2006

Snow

$2K to the Town of Swink for repairs

Otero County has had 7 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. Swink 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 Swink’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Swink. 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.