Natural hazards · Pflugerville

Pflugerville, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pflugerville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 18 claims here since 1995. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pflugerville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pflugerville to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes30%Heat waves8%Hail7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Pflugerville faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Pflugerville flood?

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

18paid claims since 1995

$502Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19952026

Biggest named events

Early summer storms: 9 claims, $112K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

🏷️ 20% off flood insurance. Pflugerville is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 6) for its flood-proofing work.

Insurance rates: Travis County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Pflugerville

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into PflugervilleDeclared for Travis County only

2025

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

126 households applied for aid $44K aid approved

2023

Severe Winter Storm

$611K to the City of Pflugerville for repairs

2021

Severe Winter Storms

1,491 households applied for aid $379K aid approved

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

46 households applied for aid $146K aid approved

2013

Severe Storms and Flooding

$62K to the City of Pflugerville for repairs

2011

Wildfires

5 households applied for aid

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

Travis County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Pflugerville

Pflugerville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Austinmostly inland floodingModerate

Round Rockmostly inland floodingLow

Pflugervillemostly inland floodingLow

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. Pflugerville covers 11 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pflugerville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pflugerville. 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 Pflugerville total about $11.5M 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.