Natural hazards · Pleasant Hill

Pleasant Hill, TX natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Hill?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Hill to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding23%Hurricanes21%Tornadoes19%Cold waves18%Strong wind8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Pleasant Hill faces

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

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Pleasant Hill flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Polk County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Hill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant HillDeclared for Polk County only

Polk County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Pleasant Hill 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 Pleasant Hill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pleasant Hill. 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.