Natural hazards · Globe

Globe, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Globe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 22 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Globe?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Globe to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding57%Wildfire37%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Globe faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Wildfire

37% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Globe flood?

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

22paid claims since 1980

$709Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19802026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Globe 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.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Globe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlobeDeclared for Gila County only

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

Around Globe

Globe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Globemostly inland floodingVery high

Pinalmostly inland floodingVery high

Icehouse Canyonmostly inland floodingVery high

Central Heights-Midland Citymostly inland floodingVery high

Claypoolmostly 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. Globe 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 Globe’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Globe. 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.