Natural hazards · Skyland

Skyland, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Skyland comes from earthquakes, 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 Skyland?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes36%Inland flooding30%Wildfire27%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Skyland faces

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

Earthquakes

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

27% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Skyland flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

Disasters that hit Skyland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SkylandDeclared for Douglas County only

Douglas County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Skyland

Skyland and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Skylandmostly earthquakesHigh

Zephyr Covemostly earthquakesHigh

Lakeridgemostly earthquakesHigh

Kingsburymostly earthquakesHigh

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