Natural hazards · Mesa del Caballo

Mesa del Caballo, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mesa del Caballo comes from wildfires, 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 Mesa del Caballo?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mesa del Caballo to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire55%Inland flooding43%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Mesa del Caballo faces

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

Wildfire

55% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Mesa del Caballo flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Mesa del Caballo.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Mesa del Caballo 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.

Disasters that hit Mesa del Caballo

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mesa del CaballoDeclared for Gila County only

Gila County has had 20 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. Mesa del Caballo 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 Mesa del Caballo’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mesa del Caballo. 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.