Natural hazards · Midway

Midway, NM natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Midway to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding55%Strong wind13%Drought9%Heat waves8%Wildfire5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Midway faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 84 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Midway flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chaves County.

Disasters that hit Midway

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MidwayDeclared for Chaves County only

Chaves County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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