Natural hazards · Tusayan

Tusayan, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tusayan comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tusayan?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tusayan to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding52%Avalanches15%Wildfire14%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Tusayan faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Avalanches

15% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Wildfire

14% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamis

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 Tusayan flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Coconino County.

Disasters that hit Tusayan

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TusayanDeclared for Coconino County only

Coconino County has had 22 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. Tusayan 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 Tusayan’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Tusayan. 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.