Natural hazards · Mayer

Mayer, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mayer comes from inland flooding, 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 Mayer?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mayer to be higher than in 96% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding63%Wildfire32%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Mayer 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

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Wildfire

32% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce 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 Mayer flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yavapai County.

Disasters that hit Mayer

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MayerDeclared for Yavapai County only

Yavapai County has had 24 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. Mayer covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mayer’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mayer. 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 Mayer total about $3.3M 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.