Natural hazards · Bronte

Bronte, TX natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bronte?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bronte to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding32%Wildfire16%Drought13%Tornadoes11%Hail10%Strong wind9%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Bronte faces

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

16% of expected damage

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

Drought

13% of expected damage

Recorded about 40 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Bronte flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Coke County.

Disasters that hit Bronte

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BronteDeclared for Coke County only

Coke County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Bronte 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 Bronte’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Bronte. 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.