Natural hazards · Cimarron

Cimarron, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cimarron comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2008. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cimarron?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cimarron to be higher than in 87% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire53%Inland flooding39%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Cimarron faces

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

Wildfire

53% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Cimarron flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Cimarron, from FEMA’s records.

2paid claims since 2008

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Colfax County.

Disasters that hit Cimarron

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Cimarron itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Cimarron.

Brought FEMA money into CimarronDeclared for Colfax County only

2022

Wildfires, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Mudflows, and Debris Flows

4 households applied for aid

Colfax County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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. Cimarron 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 Cimarron’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Cimarron. 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.