Natural hazards · Perryton

Perryton, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Perryton comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Perryton?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Perryton to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and cold waves.

Tornadoes26%Cold waves23%Inland flooding17%Strong wind11%Hail5%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Perryton faces

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

Tornadoes

26% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 2% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Perryton flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

55storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Perryton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PerrytonDeclared for Ochiltree County only

Ochiltree County has had 10 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. Perryton covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Perryton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Perryton. 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 Perryton total about $1.8M 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.