Natural hazards · Radar Base

Radar Base, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Radar Base comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Radar Base?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Radar Base to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding65%Drought16%Heat waves7%Tornadoes5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Radar Base faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

16% of expected damage

Recorded about 93 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Radar Base flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Maverick County.

Disasters that hit Radar Base

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Radar BaseDeclared for Maverick County only

Maverick County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

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. Radar Base 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 Radar Base’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Radar Base. 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.