Natural hazards · Valley View

Valley View, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Valley View comes from drought, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Valley View?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Valley View to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought39%Inland flooding22%Tornadoes17%Hail6%Wildfire6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Valley View faces

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

Drought

39% of expected damage

Recorded about 32 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 16% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Valley View flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cooke County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

53storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Valley View

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Valley ViewDeclared for Cooke County only

2024

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

389 households applied for aid $3.6M aid approved $29K to the City of Valley View for repairs

2021

Severe Winter Storms

50 households applied for aid $37K aid approved

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

54 households applied for aid $52K aid approved $20K to the City of Valley View for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

86 households applied for aid $112K aid approved

Cooke County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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