Natural hazards · Blue Diamond

Blue Diamond, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blue Diamond comes from avalanches, 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 Blue Diamond?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blue Diamond to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches36%Inland flooding31%Wildfire25%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Blue Diamond faces

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

Avalanches

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Wildfire

25% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Blue Diamond flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clark County.

Disasters that hit Blue Diamond

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Blue DiamondDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 12 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. Blue Diamond 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 Blue Diamond’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Blue Diamond. 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.