Natural hazards · Henderson

Henderson, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Henderson comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 33 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Henderson?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Henderson to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding43%Heat waves38%Wildfire9%Earthquakes9%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Henderson faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Heat waves

38% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Henderson flood?

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

33paid claims since 1980

$269Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19802026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

🏷️ 25% off flood insurance. Henderson is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 5) for its flood-proofing work.

Insurance rates: Clark County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1buildings floodproofed

Disasters that hit Henderson

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HendersonDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

Around Henderson

Henderson and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Enterprisemostly inland floodingModerate

Paradisemostly inland floodingModerate

Whitneymostly heat wavesModerate

Hendersonmostly inland floodingLow

Boulder Citymostly inland floodingLow

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. Henderson covers 73 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Henderson’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Henderson. 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 Henderson total about $109M 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.