Natural hazards · Skellytown

Skellytown, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Skellytown comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Skellytown?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Skellytown to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought56%Hail10%Tornadoes10%Wildfire8%Inland flooding6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Skellytown faces

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

Drought

56% of expected damage

Recorded about 74 times a year in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Skellytown flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Skellytown

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SkellytownDeclared for Carson County only

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

7 households applied for aid $25K aid approved

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$1K to the Town of Skellytown for repairs

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