Natural hazards · Falcon Heights

Falcon Heights, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Falcon Heights comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Falcon Heights?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Cold waves63%Inland flooding22%Wildfire5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Falcon Heights faces

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

Cold waves

63% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Falcon Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Falcon Heights 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 Falcon Heights

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Falcon Heights itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Falcon Heights.

Brought FEMA money into Falcon HeightsDeclared for Starr County only

2025

Severe Storms and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $27K aid approved

2010

Hurricane Alex

2 households applied for aid $504 aid approved

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

5 households applied for aid $12K aid approved

Starr County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Falcon Heights 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 Falcon Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Falcon Heights. 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.