Natural hazards · Golconda

Golconda, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Golconda comes from wildfires, 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 Golconda?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Golconda to be higher than in 97% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires.

Wildfire68%Inland flooding13%Drought9%Earthquakes8%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Golconda faces

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

Wildfire

68% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 102 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsTsunamis

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 Golconda flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Humboldt County.

Disasters that hit Golconda

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GolcondaDeclared for Humboldt County only

Humboldt County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms 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. Golconda 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 Golconda’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Golconda. 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.