Natural hazards · Las Palomas

Las Palomas, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Las Palomas comes from inland flooding, 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 Las Palomas?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Las Palomas to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Wildfire10%Drought8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Las Palomas faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

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

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 89 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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 Las Palomas flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Las Palomas 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 Las Palomas

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Las PalomasDeclared 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. Las Palomas 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 Las Palomas’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Las Palomas. 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.