Natural hazards · Yantis

Yantis, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yantis comes from inland flooding, 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 Yantis?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding45%Cold waves12%Ice storms10%Hail9%Strong wind8%Heat waves8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Yantis faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Yantis flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wood County.

Disasters that hit Yantis

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into YantisDeclared for Wood County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

17 households applied for aid $11K aid approved

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

Wood County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

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

Yantis, TX natural hazards

How exposed is Yantis?

What Yantis faces

Inland flooding

Cold waves

Ice storms

Hail

Strong wind

Heat waves

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Yantis flood?

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Severe Winter Storms

Severe Storms and Flooding

How to read this page

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