Natural hazards · Moapa

Moapa, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Moapa comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Moapa?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Moapa to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding36%Avalanches33%Earthquakes14%Wildfire10%Heat waves6%

By hazard

What Moapa faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Avalanches

33% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsTsunamisVolcanic 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 Moapa flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clark County.

Disasters that hit Moapa

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MoapaDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 12 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. Moapa 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 Moapa’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Moapa. 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.