Natural hazards · Pablo

Pablo, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pablo comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pablo?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pablo to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and earthquakes.

Avalanches45%Earthquakes19%Cold waves16%Inland flooding12%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Pablo faces

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

Avalanches

45% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pablo flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lake County.

Disasters that hit Pablo

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PabloDeclared for Lake County only

Lake County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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