Natural hazards · Wagon Mound

Wagon Mound, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wagon Mound comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wagon Mound?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wagon Mound to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding48%Wildfire43%Drought6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Wagon Mound faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

43% of expected damage

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

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 149 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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 Wagon Mound flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mora County.

Disasters that hit Wagon Mound

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Wagon Mound itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Wagon Mound.

Brought FEMA money into Wagon MoundDeclared for Mora County only

2022

Wildfires, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Mudflows, and Debris Flows

6 households applied for aid $600 aid approved

Mora County has had 17 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. Wagon Mound 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 Wagon Mound’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Wagon Mound. 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.