Natural hazards · Venus

Venus, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Venus comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is low 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 Venus?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Venus to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes48%Inland flooding22%Cold waves13%Heat waves8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Venus faces

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

Tornadoes

48% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 46 years in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Venus flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Johnson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

6storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Venus

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into VenusDeclared for Johnson County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

93 households applied for aid $63K aid approved

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $47K aid approved

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