Natural hazards · McIntosh

McIntosh, NM natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McIntosh to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Drought12%Wildfire10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What McIntosh faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

12% of expected damage

Recorded about 98 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis

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 McIntosh flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Torrance County.

Disasters that hit McIntosh

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into McIntoshDeclared for Torrance County only

Torrance County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. McIntosh 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 McIntosh’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to McIntosh. 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.