Natural hazards · Rancho Grande

Rancho Grande, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rancho Grande 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 Rancho Grande?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rancho Grande to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding47%Wildfire46%Lightning5%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Rancho Grande faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

46% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Lightning

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Rancho Grande flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Catron County.

Disasters that hit Rancho Grande

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Rancho GrandeDeclared for Catron County only

Catron County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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