Colorado

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$177.2B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

34.74

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 64 counties

Wildfire

65.59 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

58.41 Avg Risk Score

Avalanche

58.05 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

55.6 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

54.96 Avg Risk Score

Hail

54.3 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

42.13 Avg Risk Score

Drought

41.13 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 28 events

$48.1B

wildfire 7 events

$35.1B

drought 7 events

$66.5B

flooding 3 events

$5.0B

winter-storm 1 events

$22.7B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Arapahoe	95.16	Relatively Moderate	46.6%
2	Jefferson	94.78	Relatively Moderate	9.5%
3	Adams	94.18	Relatively Moderate	72.6%
4	Denver	93.6	Relatively Moderate	56.0%
5	Larimer	93.54	Relatively Moderate	15.2%
6	El Paso	93.51	Relatively Moderate	46.0%
7	Boulder	89.5	Relatively Moderate	20.9%
8	Weld	89.25	Relatively Moderate	58.9%
9	Douglas	81.9	Relatively Low	2.2%
10	Pueblo	79.8	Relatively Low	85.3%