Natural hazards · Tijeras

Tijeras, NM natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tijeras to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding58%Wildfire31%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Tijeras faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

31% of expected damage

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

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 Tijeras flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bernalillo County.

Disasters that hit Tijeras

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TijerasDeclared for Bernalillo County only

Bernalillo County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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. Tijeras 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 Tijeras’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Tijeras. 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.