Natural hazards · Sarita

Sarita, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sarita comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sarita?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sarita to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves.

Cold waves89%Hurricanes8%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Sarita faces

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

Cold waves

89% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Sarita flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kenedy County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Sarita

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SaritaDeclared for Kenedy County only

Kenedy County has had 17 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. Sarita 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 Sarita’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sarita. 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.