Natural hazards · Santa Clara Pueblo

Santa Clara Pueblo, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Santa Clara Pueblo 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 Santa Clara Pueblo?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding70%Wildfire17%Lightning6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Santa Clara Pueblo faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

17% of expected damage

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

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Santa Clara Pueblo flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Santa Clara Pueblo.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rio Arriba County.

Disasters that hit Santa Clara Pueblo

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Rio Arriba County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Santa Clara Pueblo itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Santa Clara PuebloDeclared for Rio Arriba County only

Rio Arriba County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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