Natural hazards · Dateland

Dateland, AZ natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dateland?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dateland to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding60%Earthquakes17%Heat waves11%Drought9%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Dateland faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 48 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic 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 Dateland flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yuma County.

Disasters that hit Dateland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DatelandDeclared for Yuma County only

Yuma County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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