Natural hazards · Tall Timber

Tall Timber, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tall Timber comes from wildfires, 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 Tall Timber?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tall Timber to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and avalanches.

Wildfire47%Avalanches27%Inland flooding20%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Tall Timber faces

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

Wildfire

47% of expected damage

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

Avalanches

27% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamis

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 Tall Timber flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Boulder County.

Disasters that hit Tall Timber

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Tall TimberDeclared for Boulder County only

Boulder County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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