Natural hazards · Conejos

Conejos, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Conejos comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Conejos?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Conejos to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches41%Inland flooding32%Cold waves13%Drought6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Conejos faces

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

Avalanches

41% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 70 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Conejos flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Conejos County.

Disasters that hit Conejos

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ConejosDeclared for Conejos County only

Conejos County has had 5 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. Conejos 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 Conejos’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Conejos. 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.