Natural hazards · Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Taos Pueblo comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Taos Pueblo?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Taos Pueblo to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches62%Inland flooding29%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Taos Pueblo faces

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

Avalanches

62% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Taos Pueblo flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Taos County.

Disasters that hit Taos Pueblo

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Taos PuebloDeclared for Taos County only

Taos County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Arroyo Secomostly avalanchesHigh

Taosmostly inland floodingLow

Taos Pueblomostly avalanchesLow

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