Natural hazards · Quanah

Quanah, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Quanah comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Quanah?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Quanah to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and strong winds.

Drought25%Strong wind21%Tornadoes16%Inland flooding15%Hail10%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Quanah faces

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

Drought

25% of expected damage

Recorded about 150 times a year in the area

Strong wind

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Quanah flood?

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

3paid claims since 1979

$52Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Quanah

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into QuanahDeclared for Hardeman County only

Hardeman County has had 12 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. Quanah covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Quanah’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Quanah. 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 Quanah total about $2.5M 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.