Natural hazards · Dickens

Dickens, TX natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dickens to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought65%Hail10%Inland flooding7%Wildfire5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Dickens faces

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

Drought

65% of expected damage

Recorded about 97 times a year in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Dickens flood?

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

Disasters that hit Dickens

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DickensDeclared for Dickens County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

$11K to the City of Dickens for repairs

Dickens County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

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