Natural hazards · Pioche

Pioche, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pioche comes from inland flooding, 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 Pioche?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding47%Wildfire34%Earthquakes12%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Pioche faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 Pioche flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

Disasters that hit Pioche

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PiocheDeclared for Lincoln County only

Lincoln County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

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