Natural hazards · Sausal

Sausal, NM natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sausal to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding76%Earthquakes17%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Sausal faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% 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 Sausal flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Sausal 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 Sausal

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SausalDeclared for Valencia County only

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

Around Sausal

Sausal and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Los Chavesmostly inland floodingVery high

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