Natural hazards · Booker

Booker, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Booker comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Booker?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Booker to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought63%Inland flooding11%Tornadoes7%Cold waves5%Wildfire5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Booker faces

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

Drought

63% of expected damage

Recorded about 73 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Booker flood?

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

1paid claims since 1997

$63Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lipscomb County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Booker

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BookerDeclared for Lipscomb County only

Lipscomb County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and hurricanes.

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