Natural hazards · Dora

Dora, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dora comes from wildfires, 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 Dora?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dora to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire42%Inland flooding36%Drought12%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Dora faces

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

Wildfire

42% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

12% of expected damage

Recorded about 108 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Dora flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Roosevelt County.

Disasters that hit Dora

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DoraDeclared for Roosevelt County only

Roosevelt County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and hurricanes.

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