Natural hazards · Sparks

Sparks, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sparks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sparks?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sparks to be higher than in 14% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding51%Heat waves17%Hail12%Lightning9%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Sparks 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 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lightning

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

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 Sparks flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: El Paso County.

Disasters that hit Sparks

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for El Paso County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Sparks itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into SparksDeclared for El Paso County only

El Paso County has had 11 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. Sparks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sparks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sparks. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Sparks total about $744K a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.