Natural hazards · Parks

Parks, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Parks 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 Parks?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Parks to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire59%Inland flooding26%Avalanches9%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Parks faces

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

Wildfire

59% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Avalanches

9% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamis

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 Parks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Coconino County.

Disasters that hit Parks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParksDeclared for Coconino County only

Coconino County has had 22 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. Parks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Parks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Parks. 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 Parks total about $5.2M 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.