Natural hazards · Avenue B and C

Avenue B and C, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avenue B and C comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avenue B and C?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avenue B and C to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes65%Inland flooding27%Heat waves7%

By hazard

What Avenue B and C faces

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

Earthquakes

65% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Avenue B and C flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Avenue B and C, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1979

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yuma County.

Disasters that hit Avenue B and C

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Yuma County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Avenue B and C itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Avenue B and CDeclared for Yuma County only

Yuma County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Avenue B and C

Avenue B and C and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Avenue B and Cmostly earthquakesVery high

Yumamostly earthquakesHigh

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. Avenue B and C covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Avenue B and C’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Avenue B and C. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Avenue B and C total about $1.7M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.