Natural hazards · Easton

Easton, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Easton comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is low 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 Easton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Easton to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes36%Inland flooding29%Cold waves9%Heat waves8%Strong wind6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Easton faces

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

Tornadoes

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 71 years in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Easton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gregg County.

Disasters that hit Easton

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into EastonDeclared for Gregg County only

2008

Hurricane Ike

4 households applied for aid $6K aid approved $10K to the City of Easton for repairs

Gregg County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Easton 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 Easton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Easton. 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.