Natural hazards · Wingate

Wingate, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wingate 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 Wingate?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wingate to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought28%Inland flooding18%Hail13%Strong wind13%Cold waves11%Tornadoes10%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Wingate faces

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

Drought

28% of expected damage

Recorded about 43 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 a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Wingate flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Runnels County.

Disasters that hit Wingate

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WingateDeclared for Runnels County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

2 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

Runnels County has had 9 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. Wingate 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 Wingate’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wingate. 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.