Natural hazards · Mentone

Mentone, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mentone comes from inland flooding, 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 Mentone?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mentone to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and strong winds.

Inland flooding59%Strong wind19%Hail6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Mentone faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Mentone flood?

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

Disasters that hit Mentone

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MentoneDeclared for Loving County only

Loving County has had 7 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. Mentone 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 Mentone’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mentone. 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.