Citrus Park’s biggest natural hazard is heat waves
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Citrus Park comes from heat waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.
What stands out about Citrus Park’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
Does Citrus Park flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Citrus Park. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Citrus Park 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.How exposed is Citrus Park?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from heat waves and inland flooding.
Calmer than 405 of the 467 Arizona towns we cover.
Citrus Park is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.
What Citrus Park faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Heat waves
Inland flooding
Wildfire
Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Maricopa County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Citrus Park itself in FEMA’s records.
Maricopa County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.
Get ready for what Citrus Park actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Know the nearest cooling center or air-conditioned library.
- Drink water before you feel thirsty.
- Check on neighbors who live alone.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Clear dead leaves and brush within 5 feet of the house.
- Sign up for local alerts and know two ways out.
- Keep N95 masks for smoky days.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Citrus Park and its neighbors
How storm and flood risk compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its hazards.
| Town | Rating | Mostly | Flood claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale | High | inland flooding | 51 |
| Citrus Park | Low | heat waves | 0 |
Rating = expected yearly storm and flood damage as a share of what’s there, vs. U.S. communities. Flood claims = paid federal flood insurance claims on record.
Most disasters here begin in May–July
The month each of Maricopa County’s 23 declared disasters began, since 1953.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Citrus Park’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Citrus Park.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Citrus Park.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.