Natural hazards · Canyon

Canyon, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canyon comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 55 claims here since 1978. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Canyon?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Canyon to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and hail.

Tornadoes29%Hail21%Inland flooding20%Cold waves10%Strong wind6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Canyon faces

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

Tornadoes

29% of expected damage

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

Hail

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Canyon flood?

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

55paid claims since 1978

$470Kpaid to owners

6homes flooded more than once

19782026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (3) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Randall County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

142storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Canyon

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CanyonDeclared for Randall County only

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$72K to the City of Canyon for repairs

Randall County has had 14 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. Canyon covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Canyon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Canyon. 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 Canyon total about $5.6M 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.