Natural hazards · Bluewater

Bluewater, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bluewater comes from inland flooding, 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 Bluewater?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding79%Heat waves12%Drought8%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Bluewater faces

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

Inland flooding

79% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 67 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Bluewater flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: La Paz County.

Disasters that hit Bluewater

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BluewaterDeclared for La Paz County only

La Paz County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Bluewater

Bluewater and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bluewatermostly inland floodingVery high

Parkermostly inland floodingVery low

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