Natural hazards · Queen Creek

Queen Creek, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Queen Creek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2008.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Queen Creek?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Queen Creek to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding64%Heat waves31%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Queen Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Heat waves

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 23 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Queen Creek flood?

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

4paid claims since 2008

$117Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Maricopa County.

Disasters that hit Queen Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Queen CreekDeclared for Maricopa County only

Maricopa County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Queen Creek

Queen Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Queen Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Gilbertmostly inland floodingHigh

Mesamostly inland floodingHigh

San Tan Valleymostly inland floodingModerate

Apache Junctionmostly inland floodingLow

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. Queen Creek covers 13 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Queen Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Queen Creek. 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 Queen Creek total about $40.2M 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.