Natural hazards · Lefors

Lefors, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lefors comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2017. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lefors?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lefors to be higher than in 75% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and wildfires.

Drought41%Wildfire19%Hail10%Cold waves9%Tornadoes8%Inland flooding6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Lefors faces

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

Drought

41% of expected damage

Recorded about 75 times a year in the area

Wildfire

19% of expected damage

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

Hail

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Lefors flood?

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

1paid claims since 2017

$178Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Harvey: 1 claim, $178K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gray County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Lefors

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeforsDeclared for Gray County only

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

3 households applied for aid

Gray County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and ice 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. Lefors 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 Lefors’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lefors. 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.