Natural hazards · South Fork Estates

South Fork Estates, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in South Fork Estates 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 South Fork Estates?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in South Fork Estates to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves72%Inland flooding22%Everything else6%

By hazard

What South Fork Estates faces

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

Cold waves

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 South Fork Estates flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in South Fork Estates.

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jim Hogg County.

Disasters that hit South Fork Estates

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Jim Hogg County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching South Fork Estates itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into South Fork EstatesDeclared for Jim Hogg County only

Jim Hogg County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

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. South Fork Estates 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 South Fork Estates’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to South Fork Estates. 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.