Natural hazards · Farnsworth

Farnsworth, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Farnsworth comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Farnsworth?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Farnsworth to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought69%Cold waves11%Inland flooding7%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Farnsworth faces

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

Drought

69% of expected damage

Recorded about 87 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Farnsworth flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Farnsworth

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FarnsworthDeclared for Ochiltree County only

Ochiltree 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. Farnsworth 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 Farnsworth’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Farnsworth. 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.