Natural hazards · Wellton

Wellton, AZ natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wellton?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding81%Earthquakes10%Heat waves6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Wellton faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Wellton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yuma County.

Disasters that hit Wellton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WelltonDeclared for Yuma County only

Yuma County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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