Natural hazards · Drexel Heights

Drexel Heights, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Drexel Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1990.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Drexel Heights?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Drexel Heights to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding55%Heat waves37%Wildfire5%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Drexel Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Heat waves

37% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Drexel Heights flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Drexel Heights, from FEMA’s records.

4paid claims since 1990

$32Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19902026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pima County.

Disasters that hit Drexel Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Drexel HeightsDeclared for Pima County only

Pima County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Drexel Heights

Drexel Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Valencia Westmostly inland floodingVery high

Tucson Estatesmostly inland floodingVery high

Tucsonmostly inland floodingHigh

Drexel Heightsmostly 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. Drexel Heights covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Drexel Heights’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Drexel Heights. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Drexel Heights total about $8.8M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.