Natural hazards · Cibola

Cibola, AZ natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cibola to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Earthquakes8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Cibola faces

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

Inland flooding

85% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Cibola flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cibola 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 Cibola

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CibolaDeclared for La Paz County only

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

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