Texas

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

149

Billion-Dollar Events

$621.9B

Total Economic Impact

254

Counties

54.1

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 254 counties

Wildfire

77.5 Avg Risk Score

Drought

66.48 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

62.53 Avg Risk Score

Hail

62.53 Avg Risk Score

Coastal Flooding

60.16 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

59.21 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

58.57 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

57.67 Avg Risk Score

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

severe-storm 101 events

$200.9B

drought 16 events

$132.5B

tropical-cyclone 15 events

$228.6B

flooding 7 events

$16.9B

winter-storm 5 events

$34.4B

wildfire 5 events

$8.6B

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	Harris	99.97	Very High	92.0%
2	Galveston	99.52	Relatively High	73.8%
3	Collin	99.27	Relatively High	30.0%
4	Dallas	99.14	Relatively High	89.2%
5	Brazoria	99.11	Relatively High	65.2%
6	Fort Bend	99.08	Relatively High	45.1%
7	Tarrant	98.82	Relatively High	75.8%
8	Hidalgo	98.76	Relatively High	98.4%
9	Cameron	98.47	Relatively High	98.4%
10	Bexar	98.28	Relatively High	91.9%