Natural hazards · Clarendon

Clarendon, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Clarendon comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1995.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clarendon?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clarendon to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes27%Inland flooding17%Strong wind15%Hail13%Wildfire10%Cold waves7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Clarendon faces

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

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 8% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Clarendon flood?

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

4paid claims since 1995

$7Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19952026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Donley County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Clarendon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClarendonDeclared for Donley County only

Donley County has had 14 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. Clarendon covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Clarendon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Clarendon. 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 Clarendon total about $1.5M 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.