Natural hazards · Hudson Bend

Hudson Bend, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hudson Bend comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 2007.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hudson Bend?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hudson Bend to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Tornadoes13%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Hudson Bend faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Hudson Bend flood?

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

10paid claims since 2007

$668Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20072026

Biggest named events

Fall 2018 Texas Flooding: 8 claims, $570K
Thunderstorms: 1 claim, $64K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Travis County.

Disasters that hit Hudson Bend

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Hudson BendDeclared for Travis County only

Travis County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Hudson Bend

Hudson Bend and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hudson Bendmostly inland floodingHigh

Austinmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Hudson Bend covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hudson Bend’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Hudson Bend. 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 Hudson Bend total about $2.9M 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.