Natural hazards · Jackpot

Jackpot, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jackpot 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 Jackpot?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Wildfire76%Inland flooding11%Avalanches8%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Jackpot faces

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

Wildfire

76% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Avalanches

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Jackpot flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Elko County.

Disasters that hit Jackpot

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JackpotDeclared for Elko County only

Elko County has had 17 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. Jackpot 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 Jackpot’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Jackpot. 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.