Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Storms, floods and disasters in Beaver Creek
Beaver Creek isn’t graded for hazard risk: Beaver Creek has 293 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Beaver Creek faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Tornadoes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Beaver Creek flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Beaver Creek. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Beaver Creek isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Rock County.4 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Beaver Creek
Disasters that paid out in Beaver Creek itself (aid to households or repair grants to the City of Beaver Creek), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2024Severe Storms and Flooding2 households applied for aid$7K aid approved
- 2014Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides$30K to the City of Beaver Creek for repairs
- 2013Severe Winter Storm$43K to the City of Beaver Creek for repairs
- 2010Severe Storms and Flooding$28K to the City of Beaver Creek for repairs
Rock County has had 13 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then floods. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Questions about natural hazards in Beaver Creek
Is Beaver Creek in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Rock County, 0.4% of all homes carry federal flood insurance.
How much is flood insurance in Beaver Creek?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Beaver Creek’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Beaver Creek?
By FEMA money that reached Beaver Creek, Severe Winter Storm (2013): $43K to the City of Beaver Creek for repairs.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Beaver Creek.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Beaver Creek’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.