Natural hazards · Chloride

Chloride, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chloride 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 Chloride?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Wildfire55%Inland flooding34%Heat waves7%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Chloride faces

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

Wildfire

55% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Chloride flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Chloride 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 Chloride

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChlorideDeclared 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. Chloride 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 Chloride’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Chloride. 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.