Natural hazards · Tanque Verde

Tanque Verde, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tanque Verde comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 60 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tanque Verde?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tanque Verde to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding78%Heat waves11%Wildfire10%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Tanque Verde faces

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

Inland flooding

78% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Tanque Verde flood?

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

60paid claims since 1978

$1.6Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Tanque 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: Pima County.

Disasters that hit Tanque Verde

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Tanque VerdeDeclared for Pima County only

Pima County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Tanque Verde

Tanque Verde and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tanque Verdemostly inland floodingVery high

Catalina Foothillsmostly inland floodingVery high

Tucsonmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Tanque Verde covers 7 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tanque Verde’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Tanque Verde. 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 Tanque Verde total about $26.3M 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.