Natural hazards · Imperial

Imperial, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Imperial comes from drought, 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 Imperial?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Imperial to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought39%Inland flooding35%Hail10%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Imperial faces

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

Drought

39% of expected damage

Recorded about 77 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Imperial flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pecos County.

Disasters that hit Imperial

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ImperialDeclared for Pecos County only

Pecos County has had 11 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. Imperial 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 Imperial’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Imperial. 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.