Natural hazards · Fort Bliss

Fort Bliss, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fort Bliss comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fort Bliss?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fort Bliss to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Hail14%Heat waves10%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Fort Bliss faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Fort Bliss flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: El Paso County.

Disasters that hit Fort Bliss

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for El Paso County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Fort Bliss itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Fort BlissDeclared for El Paso County only

El Paso County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

Around Fort Bliss

Fort Bliss and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

El Pasomostly inland floodingLow

Fort Blissmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Fort Bliss covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fort Bliss’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fort Bliss. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Fort Bliss total about $1.2M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.