Natural hazards · Hedley

Hedley, TX natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hedley?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hedley to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought64%Hail11%Wildfire7%Tornadoes5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Hedley faces

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

Drought

64% of expected damage

Recorded about 73 times a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Hedley flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Donley County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Hedley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HedleyDeclared for Donley County only

Donley County has had 14 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. Hedley 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 Hedley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Hedley. 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.