Natural hazards · Avondale

Avondale, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avondale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avondale?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avondale to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding52%Heat waves45%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Avondale faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Heat waves

45% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 23 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Avondale flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Avondale, from FEMA’s records.

4paid claims since 1978

$77Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19782026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Avondale 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.

Disasters that hit Avondale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AvondaleDeclared for Maricopa County only

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

Around Avondale

Avondale and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Avondalemostly inland floodingHigh

Litchfield Parkmostly inland floodingHigh

Phoenixmostly heat wavesModerate

Goodyearmostly heat wavesModerate

Tollesonmostly inland floodingLow

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. Avondale covers 21 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Avondale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Avondale. 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 Avondale total about $47.3M 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.