Natural hazards · Edgewood

Edgewood, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Edgewood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2025.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Edgewood?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Edgewood to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding55%Wildfire32%Earthquakes5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Edgewood faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

32% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong 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 Edgewood flood?

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

2paid claims since 2025

$36Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20252026

Biggest named events

2025 July NM Flooding: 1 claim, $17K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Edgewood 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 Edgewood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EdgewoodDeclared for Santa Fe County only

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

Around Edgewood

Edgewood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Thunder Mountainmostly inland floodingHigh

Cedar Grovemostly inland floodingHigh

Bartonmostly inland floodingHigh

Paa-Komostly inland floodingHigh

Edgewoodmostly inland floodingModerate

La Maderamostly inland floodingModerate

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. Edgewood covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Edgewood’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Edgewood. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Edgewood total about $2.7M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.