Natural hazards · Sheep Springs

Sheep Springs, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sheep Springs comes from inland flooding, 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 Sheep Springs?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sheep Springs to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Cold waves12%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Sheep Springs faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 Sheep Springs flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: San Juan County.

Disasters that hit Sheep Springs

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for San Juan County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Sheep Springs itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Sheep SpringsDeclared for San Juan County only

San Juan County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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