Natural hazards · Kearny

Kearny, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kearny comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1978. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kearny?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kearny to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding63%Wildfire25%Heat waves5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Kearny faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Wildfire

25% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Kearny flood?

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

2paid claims since 1978

$33Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pinal County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone homes bought out and moved

Disasters that hit Kearny

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Kearny itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Kearny.

Brought FEMA money into KearnyDeclared for Pinal County only

2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

$70K to the Town of Kearny for repairs

Pinal County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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