Holiday Beach’s biggest natural hazard is hurricanes
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Holiday Beach comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.
What stands out about Holiday Beach’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
Does Holiday Beach flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Holiday Beach. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Holiday Beach isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Aransas County.How exposed is Holiday Beach?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.
Rated higher than 1,744 of the 1,859 Texas towns we cover.
Holiday Beach is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.
What Holiday Beach faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Hurricanes
Inland flooding
Coastal flooding
Cold waves
1 federal disaster brought FEMA money to Holiday Beach
Disasters that paid out in Holiday Beach itself (aid to households or repair grants to Holiday Beach) and its biggest flood years.
- 2017Hurricane Harvey2 households applied for aid
Aransas County has had 26 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.
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A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- The season runs June through November and peaks from mid-August to mid-October.
- Bring in porch furniture and anything the wind can throw.
- Fill the gas tank and charge phones before the storm arrives.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Know your evacuation zone and the way off the coast.
- Storm surge comes fast: leave when you’re told, not when the water arrives.
- Move cars to high ground before king tides and nor’easters.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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Most disasters here begin in July–September
The month each of Aransas County’s 26 declared disasters began, since 1953.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Holiday Beach’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Holiday Beach.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Holiday Beach.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.