The United States of America is facing climate catastrophes from time to time including recent one, the Texas floods, which took around 135 lives during July 4-7, 2025.
Kerr County swamping added key contributors into the floods causing list, significantly boosting climate change to alarming levels, including:
Guadalupe River countered similar issues as water level was rising and no significant model system was there to warn the riverside residents.
“It was found that 17.7 million people are at risk of a 100-year flood, a number that’s more than double what FEMA’s hazard area covers,” Wired reported.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and First Street Foundation produced top 10 flooding areas maps that have major differences in property damage calculations.
FEMA reported:
| Ranking | State | Percentage | No. of Damaged Properties |
| 1 | Louisiana | 22.83 | 542,756 |
| 2 | Florida | 17.15 | 1,581,552 |
| 3 | Mississippi | 12.41 | 240,526 |
| 4 | New Jersey | 10.57 | 364,098 |
| 5 | West Virginia | 9.29 | 126,918 |
| 6 | Arkansas | 7.27 | 146,226 |
| 7 | Texas | 6.49 | 806,827 |
| 8 | Iowa | 6.32 | 154,217 |
| 9 | New Mexico | 6.28 | 94,265 |
| 10 | Nebraska | 6.18 | 71,235 |
First Street revealed shocking data which contradicts to FEMA records:
| Ranking | State | Percentage | No. of Demaged Properties |
| 1 | West Virginia | 30.25 | 413499 |
| 2 | Louisiana | 26.33 | 626120 |
| 3 | Florida | 19.04 | 1755363 |
| 4 | New Jersey | 17.32 | 596521 |
| 5 | Mississippi | 15.46 | 299566 |
| 6 | Kentucky | 15.30 | 328283 |
| 7 | Texas | 15.19 | 1888282 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | 14.93 | 856889 |
| 9 | New York | 14.27 | 771605 |
| 10 | Delaware | 12.95 | 55535 |
First Street Foundation made a flood model to provide the missing details which can help fill the gaps. Evidence shows US States are under climate threat and any one can be the next Kerr County.
