Natural hazards · Nellis AFB

Nellis AFB, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Nellis AFB comes from heat waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Nellis AFB?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nellis AFB to be higher than in 1% of U.S. communities, mostly from heat waves and earthquakes.

Heat waves54%Earthquakes40%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Nellis AFB faces

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

Heat waves

54% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Nellis AFB flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Nellis AFB 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 Nellis AFB

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Nellis AFBDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

Around Nellis AFB

Nellis AFB and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sunrise Manormostly heat wavesLow

North Las Vegasmostly heat wavesVery low

Nellis AFBmostly heat wavesVery low

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. Nellis AFB covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Nellis AFB’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Nellis AFB. 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 Nellis AFB total about $2.7M 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.