Natural hazards · Indian Hills

Indian Hills, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Indian Hills comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2014.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Indian Hills?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Indian Hills to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes44%Inland flooding24%Wildfire23%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Indian Hills faces

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

Earthquakes

44% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Indian Hills flood?

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

1paid claims since 2014

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20142026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Indian Hills 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.

Disasters that hit Indian Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Indian HillsDeclared for Douglas County only

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

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. Indian Hills covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Indian Hills’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Indian Hills. 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 Indian Hills total about $2.1M 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.