Natural hazards · Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Walnut Creek to be higher than in 75% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding52%Wildfire34%Heat waves10%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Walnut Creek 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

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Wildfire

34% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesTsunamis

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 Walnut Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Walnut CreekDeclared 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. Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Walnut Creek. 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.