Natural hazards · Marathon

Marathon, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Marathon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Marathon?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Marathon to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding33%Wildfire25%Drought22%Heat waves9%Lightning6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Marathon faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

25% of expected damage

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

Drought

22% of expected damage

Recorded about 116 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Marathon flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Brewster County.

Disasters that hit Marathon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MarathonDeclared for Brewster County only

Brewster County has had 10 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. Marathon 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 Marathon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Marathon. 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.