Natural hazards · Carson

Carson, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Carson comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 46 claims here since 1982.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Carson?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Carson to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes72%Inland flooding17%Wildfire7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Carson faces

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

Earthquakes

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamis

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 Carson flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Carson, from FEMA’s records.

46paid claims since 1982

$547Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: the county.

Disasters that hit Carson

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for the county shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Carson itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into CarsonDeclared for the county only

the county has had 11 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. Carson covers 14 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Carson’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Carson. 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 Carson total about $41.1M 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.