Natural hazards · Devers

Devers, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Devers comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 2017. 9 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Devers?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Devers to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding30%Tornadoes26%Hurricanes21%Cold waves7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Devers faces

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Hurricanes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Devers flood?

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

8paid claims since 2017

$306Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Imelda: 6 claims, $267K
Hurricane Harvey: 2 claims, $39K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Liberty County.

Disasters that hit Devers

9 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DeversDeclared for Liberty County only

2024

Hurricane Beryl

45 households applied for aid $28K aid approved

2024

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

6 households applied for aid $29K aid approved

2021

Severe Winter Storms

9 households applied for aid $9K aid approved

2019

Tropical Storm Imelda

50 households applied for aid $232K aid approved

2017

Hurricane Harvey

119 households applied for aid $345K aid approved $10K to the City of Devers for repairs

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

3 households applied for aid

2008

Hurricane Ike

207 households applied for aid $295K aid approved $20K to the City of Devers for repairs

2005

Hurricane Rita

366 households applied for aid $518K aid approved $53K to the City of Devers for repairs

2002

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

Liberty County has had 31 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Devers 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 Devers’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Devers. 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.