Natural hazards · Kress

Kress, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kress comes from hail, 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 Kress?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Hail30%Drought26%Strong wind13%Inland flooding12%Tornadoes10%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Kress faces

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

Hail

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Drought

26% of expected damage

Recorded about 84 times a year in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Kress flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Swisher County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Kress

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KressDeclared for Swisher County only

Swisher 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. Kress 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 Kress’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Kress. 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.