328 flood insurance claims·$5.4M paid·6 federal flood & hurricane disasters
Share of the whole county outline, rivers and lakes included; parts FEMA hasn’t mapped count as zero.
Shaded areas are FEMA’s mapped flood hazard zones in and around Angelina County, Texas. Zoomed out they are simplified; at street level the map switches to FEMA’s exact layer. Tap anywhere to check that spot, or search an address above.
Flash flooding from severe weather events dominates the flood history of Angelina County, supported by 110 recorded flash flood events alongside fewer standard floods, tropical storms, and hurricanes over the last 30 years. Recent impacts are illustrated by heavy rainfall events on January 23, 2024, driven by a deep upper-level trough and stalled surface frontal boundary, and on May 2, 2025, caused by daytime heating and an upper-level trough reinforcing a cold front across East Texas.
National Flood Insurance Program records indicate that flood risks affect properties across multiple designated zones, with the highest claim volume concentrated in Zone A at 181 claims averaging a payout of $20,517 and an average recorded water depth of 4 inches. Meanwhile, Zone X properties recorded 52 claims with an average payout of $27,240 and an average recorded water depth of 15 inches, while unshaded and shaded Zone X areas recorded 49 and 30 claims respectively, with average water depths of 2 inches.
Homeowners, real estate agents, and journalists should pay the closest attention to properties located within Zone A and Zone X, as these zones account for the vast majority of historical flood insurance claims and significant average water depths.
Summary written from NOAA storm reports and NFIP claims for this county. Not a prediction.
30% of Angelina County’s flood insurance claims were on properties rated outside FEMA’s high-risk zones.
262 NFIP claims with a recorded rated flood zone, 1978 to date. The zone is the one FEMA used to rate that policy, which may not match today’s map. Source: OpenFEMA NFIP claims.
In flood insurance claims here that reported a flood depth, the average was 5 inches.
Drawn to scale against an 80-inch door. Even a few inches soaks flooring, the bottom of the drywall and anything plugged in near the floor.
Average of the depths reported on claims (zero and implausible values left out); FEMA’s record doesn’t say exactly where each depth was measured. Source: OpenFEMA NFIP claims.
The worst year was 2004, with 55 claims and $1.2M paid.
Bar height is scaled by square root so ordinary years stay visible next to the worst one. NFIP claims by year of loss. Source: OpenFEMA.
79 NOAA storm reports from Angelina County describe what happened, in the words of the forecasters who covered it. Read the Texas flood stories →
23 federal disaster declarations since 1989, 6 of them floods, coastal storms or hurricanes.
| Disaster | Began |
|---|---|
| Hurricane Beryl | Jul 5, 2024 |
| Severe Winter Storm | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Severe Winter Storms | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Tropical Storms Marco And Laura | Aug 23, 2020 |
| Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding | Mar 7, 2016 |
| Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds And Flooding | May 4, 2015 |
| Hurricane Ike | Sep 7, 2008 |
| Hurricane Gustav | Aug 27, 2008 |
Weather and water disasters only; most recent first. Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations.
123 since 1996: 110 flash floods and 8 river or area floods.
| Event | Date | Damage |
|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | May 2, 2025 | — |
| Flash Flood | Apr 28, 2024 | — |
| Flash Flood | Jul 26, 2024 | — |
| Flash Flood | Jan 23, 2024 | — |
| Flash Flood | May 12, 2024 | — |
| Tropical Storm | Jul 8, 2024 | — |
| Flash Flood | Apr 6, 2023 | — |
| Flash Flood | Aug 18, 2022 | — |
— = no damage estimate in the record. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database.
Flash Flood · May 2, 2025. An upper level trough traversed east across the Southern Plains on May 2nd, which reinforced a weak cold front southeast into portions of extreme Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas along the I-30 corridor by afternoon. Strong daytime heating contributed to ample air mass destabilization through the day across the warm and moist sector ahead of the front, with scattered severe thunderstorms developing by midday…
Flash Flood · Apr 28, 2024. Regenerative thunderstorm development occurred during the afternoon on April 28th across Central Texas along existing outflows from an MCS that decayed earlier in the morning. Surface temperatures continued to warm into the upper 70s to lower 80s within cloud breaks south and east of the large-scale outflow boundary across East Texas. This led to moderate buoyancy with upper 60s to lower 70s surface dew points. Up…
Flash Flood · Jul 26, 2024. A broad complex of showers and thunderstorms with associated heavy rainfall developed across areas of Deep East Texas and West Central Louisiana by mid to late morning on July 26th. This occurred within an elongated axis of upper-level energy observed along much of the middle and upper Texas coast and up across interior areas of East Texas around the eastern flank of a broader mid-level trough over the Southern Pl…
Flash Flood · Jan 23, 2024. A deep upper-level trough axis became entrenched across the western U.S. early on January 23rd into the 24th, enhancing a deep southwesterly flow pattern across the Middle Red River Valley. Multiple disturbances aloft ejected northeast within the southwesterly flow and combined with a stalled surface frontal boundary to provide a nearly ideal environment for heavy rainfall across the Ark-La-Tex region. The axis of…
National Weather Service narratives, lightly trimmed. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database.
Every colour on the map above is a place on this drawing: where the ground sits relative to the flood FEMA plans for.
If a building in Angelina County is in a high-risk zone (A or V) and its mortgage comes from a federally regulated or insured lender, or is federally backed, flood insurance is required.
Outside those zones it is optional, and often worth having: from 2014 to 2024 nearly one-third of NFIP claims came from outside the high-risk Special Flood Hazard Area. Since Risk Rating 2.0, NFIP premiums are set for each building, so the only reliable price is a quote: FloodSmart.gov or a local agent.