Natural hazards · Tye

Tye, TX natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tye to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail49%Inland flooding27%Tornadoes6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Tye faces

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

Hail

49% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 45 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Tye flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Taylor County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Tye

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into TyeDeclared for Taylor County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

4 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

2007

Tropical Storm Erin

1 household applied for aid $3K aid approved

Taylor County has had 18 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. Tye 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 Tye’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Tye. 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.