Natural hazards · Amado

Amado, AZ natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Amado?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Amado to be higher than in 94% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding49%Wildfire27%Heat waves22%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Amado faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Wildfire

27% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Heat waves

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 Amado flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Santa Cruz County.

Disasters that hit Amado

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AmadoDeclared for Santa Cruz County only

Santa Cruz County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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. Amado 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 Amado’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Amado. 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.