Natural hazards · Road Runner

Road Runner, TX natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Road Runner?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Road Runner to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes28%Hail8%Wildfire8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Road Runner faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 20 years in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Road Runner flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cooke County.

Disasters that hit Road Runner

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Road RunnerDeclared for Cooke County only

Cooke County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Road Runner 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 Road Runner’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Road Runner. 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.