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Natural hazards · Two Buttes

Two Buttes, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Two Buttes comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

How exposed is Two Buttes?

54
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Two Buttes to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought58%Hail8%Inland flooding7%Cold waves7%Strong wind7%Wildfire6%Everything else7%
By hazard

What Two Buttes faces

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

Drought

58% of expected damage
Recorded about 150 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

7% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Two Buttes flood?

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

Disasters that hit Two Buttes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Two ButtesDeclared for Baca County only
Baca County has had 9 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. Two Buttes 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 Two Buttes’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Two Buttes. 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.

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