Natural hazards · Little Walnut

Little Walnut, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Little Walnut comes from wildfires, 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 Little Walnut?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Little Walnut to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire47%Inland flooding47%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Little Walnut faces

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

Wildfire

47% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingCold wavesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Little Walnut flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Little Walnut 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 Little Walnut

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Little WalnutDeclared 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. Little Walnut covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Little Walnut’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Little Walnut. 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 Little Walnut total about $2.0M 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.