Natural hazards · Van Horn

Van Horn, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Van Horn comes from drought, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2020.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Van Horn?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Van Horn to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought68%Inland flooding18%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Van Horn faces

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

Drought

68% of expected damage

Recorded about 121 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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 Van Horn flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Van Horn, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2020

$63Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20202026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Culberson County.

Disasters that hit Van Horn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Van HornDeclared for Culberson County only

Culberson 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. Van Horn 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 Van Horn’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Van Horn. 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.