Natural hazards · Cañada de los Alamos

Cañada de los Alamos, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cañada de los Alamos 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 Cañada de los Alamos?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cañada de los Alamos to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding52%Wildfire42%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Cañada de los Alamos faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Wildfire

42% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Cañada de los Alamos flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Cañada de los Alamos.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Santa Fe County.

Disasters that hit Cañada de los Alamos

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Santa Fe County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Cañada de los Alamos itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Cañada de los AlamosDeclared for Santa Fe County only

Santa Fe County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Cañada de los Alamos

Cañada de los Alamos and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cañada de los Alamosmostly inland floodingHigh

Cañoncitomostly inland floodingHigh

Santa Fe Foothillsmostly wildfiresModerate

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. Cañada de los Alamos 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 Cañada de los Alamos’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cañada de los Alamos. 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.