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Natural hazards · Haskell

Haskell, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Haskell comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 18 claims here since 1980. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Haskell?

52
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Haskell to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding36%Tornadoes12%Wildfire12%Drought11%Hail11%Strong wind11%Everything else7%
By hazard

What Haskell faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Wildfire

12% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Drought

11% of expected damage
Recorded about 76 times a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year 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 Haskell flood?

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

18paid claims since 1980
$55Kpaid to owners
1homes flooded more than once
19802026

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Haskell isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Haskell County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Haskell

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Haskell itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Haskell.

Brought FEMA money into HaskellDeclared for Haskell County only
2018

Severe Storms and Flooding

$15K to the City of Haskell for repairs
Haskell County has had 13 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. Haskell 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 Haskell’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Haskell. 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.

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