Natural hazards · Claypool

Claypool, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Claypool comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Claypool?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Claypool to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Wildfire14%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Claypool faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Wildfire

14% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Claypool flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gila County.

Disasters that hit Claypool

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClaypoolDeclared for Gila County only

Gila County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Claypool

Claypool and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Globemostly inland floodingVery high

Central Heights-Midland Citymostly inland floodingVery high

Claypoolmostly inland floodingHigh

Miamimostly inland floodingHigh

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