Natural hazards · Arboles

Arboles, CO natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Arboles to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding57%Wildfire29%Avalanches6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Arboles faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

29% of expected damage

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

Avalanches

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Arboles flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Archuleta County.

Disasters that hit Arboles

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ArbolesDeclared for Archuleta County only

Archuleta County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Arboles 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 Arboles’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Arboles. 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.