Natural hazards · Seth Ward

Seth Ward, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Seth Ward comes from hail, 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 Seth Ward?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Seth Ward to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail52%Inland flooding16%Tornadoes15%Cold waves7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Seth Ward faces

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

Hail

52% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Seth Ward flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hale County.

Disasters that hit Seth Ward

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Seth WardDeclared for Hale County only

Hale County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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