Natural hazards · Silverton

Silverton, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Silverton comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Silverton?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Silverton to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought80%Hail8%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Silverton faces

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

Drought

80% of expected damage

Recorded about 88 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingHurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Silverton flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Silverton

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SilvertonDeclared for Briscoe County only

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$2K to the City of Silverton for repairs

Briscoe County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and ice 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. Silverton 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 Silverton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Silverton. 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.