Natural hazards · Ingleside

Ingleside, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ingleside comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 213 claims here since 1979. 9 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ingleside?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ingleside to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes43%Inland flooding26%Cold waves15%Tornadoes7%Heat waves5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Ingleside faces

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

Hurricanes

43% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Ingleside flood?

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

213paid claims since 1979

$2.1Mpaid to owners

29homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Allen: 20 claims, $91K
Hurricane Harvey: 9 claims, $453K
Tropical Storm Claudette: 2 claims, $33K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: San Patricio County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3buildings retrofitted against wind

Disasters that hit Ingleside

9 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into InglesideDeclared for San Patricio County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

126 households applied for aid $58K aid approved $5K to the City of Ingleside for repairs

2017

Hurricane Harvey

3,115 households applied for aid $2.6M aid approved $5.5M to the City of Ingleside for repairs

2008

Hurricane Ike

$21K to the City of Ingleside for repairs

2008

Hurricane Dolly

$1K to the City of Ingleside for repairs

2007

Hurricane Dean

$1K to the City of Ingleside for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $519 aid approved

2003

Hurricane Claudette

8 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

2002

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

82 households applied for aid $208K aid approved

1999

Hurricane Bret

$4K to the City of Ingleside for repairs

San Patricio County has had 29 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Ingleside

Ingleside and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Inglesidemostly hurricanesHigh

Corpus Christimostly hurricanesHigh

Aransas Passmostly hurricanesHigh

Ingleside on the Baymostly hurricanesHigh

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. Ingleside covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ingleside’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Ingleside. 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 Ingleside total about $5.3M 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.