Natural hazards · Stratford

Stratford, TX natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Stratford?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stratford to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and cold waves.

Drought63%Cold waves26%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Stratford faces

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

Drought

63% of expected damage

Recorded about 124 times a year in the area

Cold waves

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Stratford flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Stratford

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into StratfordDeclared for Sherman County only

Sherman County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and hurricanes.

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. Stratford 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 Stratford’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Stratford. 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.