Natural hazards · Sundown

Sundown, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sundown comes from hail, and overall the risk is low 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 Sundown?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sundown to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and tornadoes.

Hail37%Tornadoes15%Drought15%Inland flooding13%Strong wind6%Cold waves5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Sundown faces

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

Hail

37% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Drought

15% of expected damage

Recorded about 77 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sundown flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hockley County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Sundown

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SundownDeclared for Hockley County only

2024

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

8 households applied for aid $20K aid approved

2011

Wildfires

$5K to the City of Sundown for repairs

Hockley County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe 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. Sundown 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 Sundown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Sundown. 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.