Natural hazards · Buckeye

Buckeye, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Buckeye comes from heat waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 35 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Buckeye?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Buckeye to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from heat waves and inland flooding.

Heat waves52%Inland flooding40%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Buckeye faces

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

Heat waves

52% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 23 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 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 Buckeye flood?

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

35paid claims since 1978

$367Kpaid to owners

6homes 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. Buckeye 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 Buckeye

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BuckeyeDeclared for Maricopa County only

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

Around Buckeye

Buckeye and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Surprisemostly inland floodingModerate

Goodyearmostly heat wavesModerate

Buckeyemostly heat wavesModerate

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. Buckeye covers 11 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Buckeye’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Buckeye. 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 Buckeye total about $30.8M 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.