Natural hazards · Picacho Hills

Picacho Hills, NM natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Picacho Hills?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Picacho Hills to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding62%Drought16%Heat waves6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Picacho Hills faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

16% of expected damage

Recorded about 84 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Picacho Hills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dona Ana County.

Disasters that hit Picacho Hills

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Dona Ana County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Picacho Hills itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Picacho HillsDeclared for Dona Ana County only

Dona Ana County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Picacho Hills

Picacho Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Las Crucesmostly inland floodingLow

Picacho Hillsmostly inland floodingLow

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