Natural hazards · Avra Valley

Avra Valley, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avra Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avra Valley?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avra Valley to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding78%Heat waves15%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Avra Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

78% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 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 Avra Valley flood?

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

4paid claims since 1983

$88Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pima County.

Disasters that hit Avra Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Avra ValleyDeclared for Pima County only

Pima County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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. Avra Valley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Avra Valley’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Avra Valley. 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 Avra Valley total about $5.0M 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.