Natural hazards · Walsh

Walsh, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Walsh comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate 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 Walsh?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Walsh 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 Walsh 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 Walsh flood?

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

Disasters that hit Walsh

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WalshDeclared for Baca County only

2006

Snow

$4K to the Town of Walsh for repairs

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. Walsh 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 Walsh’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Walsh. 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.

Walsh, CO natural hazards

How exposed is Walsh?

What Walsh faces

Drought

Hail

Inland flooding

Cold waves

Strong wind

Wildfire

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Walsh flood?

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Snow

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