Natural hazards · Vega

Vega, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vega comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vega?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vega to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought60%Cold waves11%Hail9%Inland flooding7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Vega faces

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

Drought

60% of expected damage

Recorded about 94 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Vega flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

7storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Vega

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into VegaDeclared for Oldham County only

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$10K to the City of Vega for repairs

Oldham County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and ice 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. Vega 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 Vega’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Vega. 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.