Natural hazards · Hurley

Hurley, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hurley 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 Hurley?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hurley to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Wildfire7%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Hurley faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Hurley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant County.

Disasters that hit Hurley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HurleyDeclared for Grant County only

Grant County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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