Natural hazards · West Pleasant View

West Pleasant View, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in West Pleasant View comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is West Pleasant View?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in West Pleasant View to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding48%Hail28%Tornadoes11%Lightning6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What West Pleasant View faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 West Pleasant View flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in West Pleasant View, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 1980

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

Late summer storms: 1 claim, $868

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit West Pleasant View

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Jefferson County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching West Pleasant View itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into West Pleasant ViewDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around West Pleasant View

West Pleasant View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Applewoodmostly inland floodingHigh

West Pleasant Viewmostly inland floodingModerate

Goldenmostly inland floodingModerate

Lakewoodmostly hailModerate

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. West Pleasant View covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to West Pleasant View’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to West Pleasant View. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across West Pleasant View total about $1.5M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.