Natural hazards · Bushland

Bushland, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bushland comes from hail, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bushland?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bushland to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and drought.

Hail24%Drought20%Inland flooding17%Tornadoes14%Wildfire12%Cold waves6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Bushland faces

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

Hail

24% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Drought

20% of expected damage

Recorded about 109 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

12% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bushland flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Potter County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

45storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Bushland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BushlandDeclared for Potter County only

Potter County has had 16 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. Bushland 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 Bushland’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bushland. 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.