Natural hazards · Kingsbury

Kingsbury, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kingsbury comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kingsbury?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kingsbury to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and wildfires.

Earthquakes44%Wildfire36%Inland flooding15%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Kingsbury 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 88% of U.S. places

Wildfire

36% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 7% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Kingsbury flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Kingsbury 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 Kingsbury

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KingsburyDeclared for Douglas County only

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

Around Kingsbury

Kingsbury and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Genoamostly wildfiresVery high

Kingsburymostly earthquakesHigh

Zephyr Covemostly earthquakesHigh

Skylandmostly earthquakesHigh

Round Hill Villagemostly earthquakesHigh

Statelinemostly 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. Kingsbury covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kingsbury’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kingsbury. 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 Kingsbury total about $3.2M 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.