Natural hazards · Paa-Ko

Paa-Ko, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Paa-Ko comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Paa-Ko?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paa-Ko to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding46%Wildfire43%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Paa-Ko faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

43% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Paa-Ko flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Paa-Ko.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bernalillo County.

Disasters that hit Paa-Ko

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Bernalillo County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Paa-Ko itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Paa-KoDeclared for Bernalillo County only

Bernalillo County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

Around Paa-Ko

Paa-Ko and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Paa-Komostly inland floodingHigh

Edgewoodmostly inland floodingModerate

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