Natural hazards · Glen Rose

Glen Rose, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glen Rose comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1989.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glen Rose?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glen Rose to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding67%Tornadoes15%Cold waves9%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Glen Rose faces

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

Inland flooding

67% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Glen Rose flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Glen Rose, from FEMA’s records.

8paid claims since 1989

$39Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19892026

Biggest named events

Thunderstorms: 1 claim, $9K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Somervell County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

15storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Glen Rose

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Glen RoseDeclared for Somervell County only

Somervell County has had 16 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. Glen Rose covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glen Rose’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Glen Rose. 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 Glen Rose total about $1.7M 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.