Natural hazards · Channing

Channing, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Channing comes from drought, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Channing?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Channing to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and cold waves.

Drought43%Cold waves28%Strong wind8%Inland flooding7%Hail5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Channing faces

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

Drought

43% of expected damage

Recorded about 130 times a year in the area

Cold waves

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Channing flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hartley County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Channing

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChanningDeclared for Hartley County only

Hartley County has had 9 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. Channing 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 Channing’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Channing. 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.