Natural hazards · Valentine

Valentine, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Valentine comes from wildfires, 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 Valentine?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Valentine to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire44%Inland flooding43%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Valentine faces

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

Wildfire

44% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Valentine flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jeff Davis County.

Disasters that hit Valentine

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ValentineDeclared for Jeff Davis County only

Jeff Davis County has had 14 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. Valentine 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 Valentine’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Valentine. 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.