Natural hazards · Juarez

Juarez, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Juarez comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 31 claims here since 2019.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Juarez?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Juarez to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes56%Inland flooding17%Cold waves17%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Juarez faces

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

Hurricanes

56% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Juarez flood?

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

31paid claims since 2019

$874Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20192026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cameron County.

Disasters that hit Juarez

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JuarezDeclared for Cameron County only

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

Around Juarez

Juarez and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Harlingenmostly hurricanesHigh

Las Palmas IImostly hurricanesHigh

Juarezmostly 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. Juarez covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Juarez’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Juarez. 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 Juarez total about $1.0M 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.