Natural hazards · Windmill

Windmill, NM natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Windmill?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Windmill to be higher than in 87% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought37%Inland flooding33%Wildfire18%Heat waves7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Windmill faces

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

Drought

37% of expected damage

Recorded about 125 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Wildfire

18% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Windmill flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hidalgo County.

Disasters that hit Windmill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WindmillDeclared for Hidalgo County only

Hidalgo County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Windmill 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 Windmill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Windmill. 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.