Natural hazards · Mancos

Mancos, CO natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mancos to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding40%Avalanches33%Wildfire19%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Mancos faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Avalanches

33% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

19% of expected damage

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

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 Mancos flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Montezuma County.

Disasters that hit Mancos

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MancosDeclared for Montezuma County only

Montezuma 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. Mancos 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 Mancos’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Mancos. 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.