Natural hazards · Flowing Wells

Flowing Wells, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Flowing Wells comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Flowing Wells?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Flowing Wells to be higher than in 97% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding83%Heat waves15%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Flowing Wells faces

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

Inland flooding

83% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Flowing Wells flood?

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

1paid claims since 1979

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Flowing Wells 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 Flowing Wells

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Flowing WellsDeclared for Pima County only

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

Around Flowing Wells

Flowing Wells and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Flowing Wellsmostly inland floodingVery high

Casas Adobesmostly inland floodingVery high

Tucsonmostly 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. Flowing Wells covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Flowing Wells’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Flowing Wells. 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 Flowing Wells total about $10.4M 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.