Natural hazards · Pueblitos

Pueblitos, NM natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pueblitos to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Earthquakes7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Pueblitos faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pueblitos flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Valencia County.

Disasters that hit Pueblitos

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PueblitosDeclared for Valencia County only

Valencia County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Pueblitos

Pueblitos and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pueblitosmostly inland floodingVery high

Jaralesmostly inland floodingVery high

Belenmostly inland floodingHigh

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