Natural hazards · Donovan Estates

Donovan Estates, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Donovan Estates comes from earthquakes, 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 Donovan Estates?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Donovan Estates to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes61%Inland flooding27%Heat waves11%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Donovan Estates faces

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

Earthquakes

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Donovan Estates flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Donovan Estates 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 Donovan Estates

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Donovan EstatesDeclared for Yuma County only

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

Around Donovan Estates

Donovan Estates and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Donovan Estatesmostly earthquakesVery high

Yumamostly earthquakesHigh

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