Natural hazards · Doña Ana

Doña Ana, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Doña Ana 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 Doña Ana?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Doña Ana to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding66%Drought19%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Doña Ana 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 3 times a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 56 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Doña Ana flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dona Ana County.

Disasters that hit Doña Ana

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Doña AnaDeclared for Dona Ana County only

Dona Ana County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Doña Ana 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 Doña Ana’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Doña Ana. 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.