Natural hazards · Scurry

Scurry, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Scurry comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2022. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Scurry?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Scurry to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes14%Heat waves11%Cold waves11%Hail7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Scurry faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Scurry flood?

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

2paid claims since 2022

$254Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20222026

Biggest named events

Dallas Flash Floods: 1 claim, $119K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kaufman County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Scurry

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Scurry itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Scurry.

Brought FEMA money into ScurryDeclared for Kaufman County only

2024

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

46 households applied for aid $111K aid approved

2021

Severe Winter Storms

34 households applied for aid $11K aid approved

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$5K to the Town of Scurry for repairs

Kaufman County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

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