Natural hazards · Aguila

Aguila, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Aguila comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Aguila?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Aguila to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding54%Heat waves23%Wildfire10%Drought10%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Aguila faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Heat waves

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 73 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Aguila flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Aguila.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Aguila isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Maricopa County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

11flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Aguila

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Maricopa County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Aguila itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into AguilaDeclared for Maricopa County only

Maricopa County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Aguila is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Aguila’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Aguila. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); 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. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.