Natural hazards · Beaver Dam

Beaver Dam, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beaver Dam comes from wildfires, 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 Beaver Dam?

99
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

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

Wildfire49%Inland flooding48%Everything else3%
By hazard

What Beaver Dam faces

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

Wildfire

49% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis
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 Beaver Dam flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Beaver Dam isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Mohave County.
Disasters that hit Beaver Dam

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Beaver DamDeclared for Mohave County only
Mohave County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Beaver Dam 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 Beaver Dam’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Beaver Dam. 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.

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