Natural hazards · Genoa

Genoa, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Genoa comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 35 claims here since 1986.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Genoa?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Genoa to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire42%Inland flooding30%Earthquakes23%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Genoa faces

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

Wildfire

42% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% 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 Genoa flood?

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

35paid claims since 1986

$922Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19862026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1homes raised above flood level

Disasters that hit Genoa

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GenoaDeclared for Douglas County only

Douglas County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Genoa

Genoa and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Genoamostly wildfiresVery high

Kingsburymostly earthquakesHigh

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. Genoa covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Genoa’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Genoa. 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 Genoa total about $2.8M 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.