Natural hazards · Kingston

Kingston, NV natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kingston to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire37%Inland flooding30%Drought18%Earthquakes10%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Kingston faces

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

Wildfire

37% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 157 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% 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 Kingston flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lander County.

Disasters that hit Kingston

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KingstonDeclared for Lander County only

Lander County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

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. Kingston 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 Kingston’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kingston. 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.