Natural hazards · Santa Clara

Santa Clara, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Santa Clara comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Santa Clara?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Santa Clara to be higher than in 87% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Wildfire12%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Santa Clara faces

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

Inland flooding

83% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

12% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant County.

Disasters that hit Santa Clara

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Santa Clara itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Santa Clara.

Brought FEMA money into Santa ClaraDeclared for Grant County only

2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

$23K to the Village of Santa Clara for repairs

Grant County has had 11 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. Santa Clara 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’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Santa Clara. 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.