Natural hazards · Homer C Jones

Homer C Jones, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Homer C Jones comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Homer C Jones?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Homer C Jones to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding61%Cold waves22%Lightning7%Wildfire5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Homer C Jones faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Homer C Jones flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Homer C Jones.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: McKinley County.

Disasters that hit Homer C Jones

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for McKinley County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Homer C Jones itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Homer C JonesDeclared for McKinley County only

McKinley County has had 8 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. Homer C Jones 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 Homer C Jones’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Homer C Jones. 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.