Natural hazards · Hot Springs Landing

Hot Springs Landing, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hot Springs Landing 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 Hot Springs Landing?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hot Springs Landing to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Drought10%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Hot Springs Landing faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 63 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamis

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 Hot Springs Landing flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Hot Springs Landing.

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sierra County.

Disasters that hit Hot Springs Landing

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Sierra County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Hot Springs Landing itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Hot Springs LandingDeclared for Sierra County only

Sierra County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Hot Springs Landing 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 Hot Springs Landing’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Hot Springs Landing. 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.