What are the natural hazards of Mountains and Basins region Texas?

- Due to steep slopes and high rainfall rates resulting from orographic uplift.

Sinkholes

- Due to the subsurface dissolution of evaporite minerals (primarily salt/halite and gypsum) and subsequent ground collapse. Salt is widely distributed across the province at shallow depths.

Droughts

- Low annual precipitation rates (especially in the Western Plateau section where rainfall averages from 16 to 22 inches) along with high annual evapotranspiration rates result in severe to extreme drought episodes that impact agriculture, municipal water supplies, recreation, livestock and plant and animal communities dependent upon surface water (e.g., Guadalupe bass, river otters, salamanders, reptiles, riparian flora and fauna, etc.).

Earthquakes

- Minor Earthquakes in Texas