Natural hazards · Escobares

Escobares, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Escobares comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Escobares?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Escobares to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves69%Inland flooding23%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Escobares faces

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

Cold waves

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Escobares flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Starr County.

Disasters that hit Escobares

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into EscobaresDeclared for Starr County only

2025

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $14K aid approved

2010

Hurricane Alex

$2K to the City of Escobares for repairs

2008

Hurricane Dolly

$15K to the City of Escobares for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$17K to the City of Escobares for repairs

Starr County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Escobares

Escobares and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Escobaresmostly cold wavesModerate

Garcenomostly cold wavesModerate

North Escobaresmostly cold wavesModerate

La Rositamostly cold wavesModerate

Romamostly cold wavesLow

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