Natural hazards · Center Point

Center Point, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Center Point 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 Center Point?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Center Point to be higher than in 91% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding89%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Center Point faces

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

Inland flooding

89% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 Center Point flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: San Juan County.

Disasters that hit Center Point

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Center PointDeclared for San Juan County only

San Juan County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Center Point

Center Point and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Center Pointmostly inland floodingVery high

Cedar Hillmostly inland floodingVery high

Aztecmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Center Point 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 Center Point’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Center Point. 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.