Natural hazards · Poetry

Poetry, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Poetry 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 Poetry?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Poetry to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes14%Heat waves11%Cold waves11%Hail8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Poetry 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 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Poetry flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kaufman County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Poetry

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PoetryDeclared for Kaufman County only

Kaufman County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Poetry 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 Poetry’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Poetry. 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.