Natural hazards · Pahrump

Pahrump, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pahrump comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 16 claims here since 2006.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pahrump?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pahrump to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding55%Heat waves29%Earthquakes12%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Pahrump faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

29% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pahrump flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Pahrump, from FEMA’s records.

16paid claims since 2006

$569Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Hilary: 4 claims, $235K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Nye County.

Disasters that hit Pahrump

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PahrumpDeclared for Nye County only

Nye County has had 3 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. Pahrump covers 10 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pahrump’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pahrump. 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 Pahrump total about $18.2M 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.