Natural hazards · Wenden

Wenden, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wenden 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 Wenden?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wenden to be higher than in 91% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding86%Heat waves7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Wenden faces

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

Inland flooding

86% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold 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 Wenden flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: La Paz County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

18flood-prone homes bought out and moved

2flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Wenden

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WendenDeclared for La Paz County only

La Paz County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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