Natural hazards · Young

Young, AZ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Young comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 19 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Young?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Young to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding61%Wildfire36%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Young faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Wildfire

36% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Young flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Young, from FEMA’s records.

19paid claims since 1993

$548Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gila County.

Disasters that hit Young

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into YoungDeclared for Gila County only

Gila County has had 20 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. Young covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Young’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Young. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Young total about $3.4M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.