Natural hazards · Briar

Briar, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Briar comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 56 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Briar?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Briar to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding43%Tornadoes22%Hail16%Heat waves9%Cold waves5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Briar faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 72 years in the area

Hail

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Briar flood?

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

56paid claims since 1981

$1.1Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Bill: 3 claims, $48K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tarrant County.

Disasters that hit Briar

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BriarDeclared for Tarrant County only

Tarrant County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Briar

Briar and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pecan Acresmostly inland floodingModerate

Briarmostly inland floodingModerate

Azlemostly inland floodingModerate

Pelican Baymostly inland floodingModerate

Renomostly tornadoesLow

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. Briar covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Briar’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Briar. 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 Briar total about $1.9M 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.