Natural hazards · Aguilar

Aguilar, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Aguilar comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Aguilar?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Aguilar to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding51%Wildfire20%Cold waves10%Lightning7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Aguilar faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

20% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Aguilar flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Las Animas County.

Disasters that hit Aguilar

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Aguilar itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Aguilar.

Brought FEMA money into AguilarDeclared for Las Animas County only

2006

Snow

$8K to the Town of Aguilar for repairs

Las Animas County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and winter 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. Aguilar 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 Aguilar’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Aguilar. 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.