Natural hazards · Santa Fe Foothills

Santa Fe Foothills, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Santa Fe Foothills comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Santa Fe Foothills?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Santa Fe Foothills to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire47%Inland flooding43%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Santa Fe Foothills faces

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

Wildfire

47% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fe Foothills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Santa Fe County.

Disasters that hit Santa Fe Foothills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Santa Fe FoothillsDeclared for Santa Fe County only

Santa Fe County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Santa Fe Foothills

Santa Fe Foothills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cañada de los Alamosmostly inland floodingHigh

Conejomostly wildfiresHigh

Sunlit Hillsmostly wildfiresHigh

Santa Fe Foothillsmostly wildfiresModerate

Santa Femostly inland floodingVery low

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