Natural hazards · Grandfalls

Grandfalls, TX natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Grandfalls?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Grandfalls to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding51%Hail9%Strong wind9%Drought8%Wildfire7%Tornadoes6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Grandfalls faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 74 times a year in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Grandfalls flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ward County.

Disasters that hit Grandfalls

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GrandfallsDeclared for Ward County only

Ward County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and hurricanes.

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