Natural hazards · Boles Acres

Boles Acres, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Boles Acres comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Boles Acres?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Boles Acres to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding66%Wildfire16%Lightning6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Boles Acres faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamis

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 Boles Acres flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Otero County.

Disasters that hit Boles Acres

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Boles AcresDeclared for Otero County only

Otero County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe 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. Boles Acres 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 Boles Acres’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Boles Acres. 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.