Natural hazards · Sunlit Hills

Sunlit Hills, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sunlit Hills comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sunlit Hills?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sunlit Hills to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire53%Inland flooding39%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Sunlit Hills faces

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

Wildfire

53% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sunlit Hills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Sunlit Hills 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 Sunlit Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Sunlit HillsDeclared for Santa Fe County only

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

Around Sunlit Hills

Sunlit Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sunlit Hillsmostly wildfiresHigh

Arroyo Hondomostly wildfiresHigh

Conejomostly wildfiresHigh

Seton Villagemostly wildfiresHigh

Santa Fe Foothillsmostly wildfiresModerate

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. Sunlit Hills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sunlit Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sunlit Hills. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Sunlit Hills total about $954K a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.