Natural hazards · Pleasant Valley

Pleasant Valley, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 2008.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Valley?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Valley to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding56%Wildfire13%Tornadoes12%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Pleasant Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

13% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 65 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Pleasant Valley flood?

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

9paid claims since 2008

$668Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20082026

Biggest named events

Early summer storms: 4 claims, $328K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wichita County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant ValleyDeclared for Wichita County only

Wichita County has had 20 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. Pleasant Valley 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 Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Pleasant Valley. 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.