Natural hazards · Claude

Claude, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Claude comes from drought, and overall the risk is 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 Claude?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Claude to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought75%Hail9%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Claude faces

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

Drought

75% of expected damage

Recorded about 79 times a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Claude flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

14storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Claude

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClaudeDeclared for Armstrong County only

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$7K to the City of Claude for repairs

Armstrong 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. Claude 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 Claude’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Claude. 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.