Natural hazards · Bisbee

Bisbee, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bisbee comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 12 claims here since 1986.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bisbee?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bisbee to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding50%Wildfire27%Heat waves19%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Bisbee faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Wildfire

27% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

19% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 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 Bisbee flood?

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

12paid claims since 1986

$148Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19862026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cochise County.

Disasters that hit Bisbee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BisbeeDeclared for Cochise County only

Cochise County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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