Natural hazards · Westway

Westway, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Westway comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Westway?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Westway to be higher than in 5% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding48%Heat waves18%Hail13%Lightning9%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Westway faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lightning

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Westway flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: El Paso County.

Disasters that hit Westway

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for El Paso County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Westway itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into WestwayDeclared for El Paso County only

El Paso County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

Around Westway

Westway and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

El Pasomostly inland floodingLow

Westwaymostly inland floodingVery low

Vintonmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Westway 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 Westway’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Westway. 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.