Natural hazards · Briaroaks

Briaroaks, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Briaroaks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2015.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Briaroaks?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Briaroaks to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding38%Tornadoes37%Cold waves9%Heat waves6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Briaroaks faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

37% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Briaroaks flood?

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

3paid claims since 2015

$442Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20152026

Biggest named events

Texas Spring Flooding: 2 claims, $334K
Early summer storms: 1 claim, $108K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Johnson County.

Disasters that hit Briaroaks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BriaroaksDeclared for Johnson County only

Johnson County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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. Briaroaks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Briaroaks’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Briaroaks. 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 Briaroaks total about $1.1M 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.