Natural hazards · Sedona

Sedona, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sedona comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 36 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sedona?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sedona to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding69%Wildfire22%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Sedona faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Wildfire

22% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamis

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 Sedona flood?

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

36paid claims since 1993

$1.1Mpaid to owners

12homes flooded more than once

19932026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

🏷️ 10% off flood insurance. Sedona is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 8) for its flood-proofing work.

Insurance rates: Yavapai County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4buildings floodproofed

Disasters that hit Sedona

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SedonaDeclared for Yavapai County only

Yavapai County has had 24 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. Sedona 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 Sedona’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Sedona. 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.