Natural hazards · Scissors

Scissors, TX natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Scissors?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Scissors to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and hurricanes.

Cold waves41%Hurricanes30%Inland flooding15%Heat waves6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Scissors faces

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

Cold waves

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Scissors flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hidalgo County.

Disasters that hit Scissors

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ScissorsDeclared for Hidalgo County only

Hidalgo County has had 27 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Scissors 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 Scissors’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Scissors. 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.