Natural hazards · Avinger

Avinger, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avinger comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avinger?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avinger to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding37%Tornadoes16%Hail12%Ice storms10%Strong wind9%Heat waves7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Avinger faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Ice storms

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Avinger flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cass County.

Disasters that hit Avinger

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AvingerDeclared for Cass County only

2016

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2011

Wildfires

17 households applied for aid $146K aid approved

Cass County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Avinger 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 Avinger’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Avinger. 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.