Natural hazards · Canadian

Canadian, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canadian comes from drought, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Canadian?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Canadian to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and wildfires.

Drought26%Wildfire21%Tornadoes20%Cold waves10%Inland flooding9%Strong wind7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Canadian faces

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

Drought

26% of expected damage

Recorded about 90 times a year in the area

Wildfire

21% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

9% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Canadian flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

14storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Canadian

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Canadian itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Canadian.

Brought FEMA money into CanadianDeclared for Hemphill County only

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$16K to the City of Canadian for repairs

Hemphill County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and ice 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. Canadian 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 Canadian’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Canadian. 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.