Natural hazards · Yah-ta-hey

Yah-ta-hey, NM natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yah-ta-hey comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yah-ta-hey?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yah-ta-hey to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding42%Cold waves38%Lightning11%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Yah-ta-hey faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

38% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lightning

11% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

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 Yah-ta-hey flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Yah-ta-hey.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: McKinley County.

Disasters that hit Yah-ta-hey

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for McKinley County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Yah-ta-hey itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Yah-ta-heyDeclared for McKinley County only

McKinley 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. Yah-ta-hey covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Yah-ta-hey’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Yah-ta-hey. 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 Yah-ta-hey total about $259K 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.