Natural hazards · Valentine

Valentine, AZ natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Valentine?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Valentine to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding54%Wildfire22%Heat waves16%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Valentine faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Wildfire

22% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold 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 Valentine flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mohave County.

Disasters that hit Valentine

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ValentineDeclared for Mohave County only

Mohave County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

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