Natural hazards · Dimmitt

Dimmitt, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dimmitt comes from tornadoes, 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 Dimmitt?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dimmitt to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and cold waves.

Tornadoes28%Cold waves22%Hail16%Inland flooding13%Strong wind10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Dimmitt faces

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

Tornadoes

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 31 years in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 3% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Dimmitt flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Castro County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

6storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Dimmitt

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DimmittDeclared for Castro County only

Castro County has had 10 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. Dimmitt 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 Dimmitt’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Dimmitt. 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.