Natural hazards · Barton Creek

Barton Creek, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Barton Creek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Barton Creek?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barton Creek to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding57%Tornadoes22%Hail10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Barton Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Hail

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Barton Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Travis County.

Disasters that hit Barton Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Barton CreekDeclared for Travis County only

Travis County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Barton Creek

Barton Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Austinmostly inland floodingModerate

Lost Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Barton Creekmostly inland floodingLow

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. Barton Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Barton Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Barton Creek. 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 Barton Creek total about $1.6M 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.