{"id":456743,"date":"2026-10-05T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456743\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:32:08","slug":"these-3-texas-counties-are-growing-rapidly-despite-high-disaster-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456743\/","title":{"rendered":"These 3 Texas counties are growing rapidly despite high disaster risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lone Star State continues to grow<\/a> in areas where natural disasters pose serious risks. A new ranking puts three Texas counties among the nation’s top 10 fastest-growing, despite racing an elevated disaster risk.<\/a><\/p>\n

RealtyHomes, an online real estate platform, recently analyzed<\/a> Census population and housing estimates alongside scores from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk Index.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Looking at U.S. counties with at least 100,000 residents as of July 1, 2025, with an overall FEMA risk rating of “relatively high” or “very high”, the company compiled a list of the 25 fastest-growing U.S. counties<\/a> with elevated natural disaster risk. Three Texas counties ranked in the top 10, including two in the Houston area\u2014one of which ranked in the top three.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County, located north of Houston, ranked No. 2 among the fastest-growing, high-risk counties in America. The county grew by approximately 24.9 percent between 2020 and 2025. The county also added nearly 68,800 housing units during that timeframe.<\/p>\n

Following Montgomery County was Collin County at No. 5. Collin County, located north of Dallas, grew by about 20.6 percent between the same five-year period.<\/p>\n

“Collin County, Texas, stands out for the scale of its growth, adding more than 221,000 residents and reaching nearly 1.3 million people in 2025,”\u00a0RealtyHomes wrote in its report.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the top 10 was Fort Bend County, located southwest of Houston. Fort Bend ranked ninth with an approximate growth rate of 17.4 percent between 2020 and 2025.<\/p>\n

Only one other Texas county claimed a spot among the top 25: Denton. Located in the northern portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, Denton claimed spot No. 11 with an estimated growth rate of 16.9 percent.<\/p>\n

None of the 17 large U.S. counties\u00a0FEMA considers at very high risk for disasters ranked among the nation’s 25 fastest-growing counties.<\/p>\n

However, across the U.S., the fastest-growing county that\u00a0FEMA ranks as very high-risk is also in Texas: Harris County. Harris County had a 6.6 percent growth rate between 2020 and 2025.<\/p>\n

A fast-growing county southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, claimed the No. 1 spot overall: Brunswick County. The county had a 26.5 percent growth rate between 2020 and 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lone Star State continues to grow in areas where natural disasters pose serious risks. A new ranking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1836,1704,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-456743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}