Natural hazards · Rancho Mesa Verde

Rancho Mesa Verde, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rancho Mesa Verde comes from earthquakes, 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 Rancho Mesa Verde?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rancho Mesa Verde to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes71%Inland flooding20%Heat waves7%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Rancho Mesa Verde faces

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

Earthquakes

71% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Rancho Mesa Verde flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Rancho Mesa Verde.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yuma County.

Disasters that hit Rancho Mesa Verde

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Yuma County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Rancho Mesa Verde itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Rancho Mesa VerdeDeclared for Yuma County only

Yuma County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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. Rancho Mesa Verde 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 Rancho Mesa Verde’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Rancho Mesa Verde. 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.