Natural hazards · Quartzsite

Quartzsite, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Quartzsite comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Quartzsite?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Quartzsite to be higher than in 91% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding94%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Quartzsite faces

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

Inland flooding

94% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Quartzsite flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: La Paz County.

Disasters that hit Quartzsite

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into QuartzsiteDeclared for La Paz County only

2010

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$34K to the Town of Quartzsite for repairs

La Paz County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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