Natural hazards · Lamesa

Lamesa, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lamesa comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lamesa?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lamesa to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves30%Inland flooding27%Tornadoes15%Hail13%Strong wind11%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Lamesa faces

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

Cold waves

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Hail

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Lamesa flood?

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

10paid claims since 1980

$143Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19802026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dawson County.

Disasters that hit Lamesa

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LamesaDeclared for Dawson County only

Dawson County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and hurricanes.

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. Lamesa covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lamesa’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Lamesa. 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 Lamesa total about $3.6M 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.