Natural hazards · Spring Valley

Spring Valley, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Spring Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 18 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Spring Valley?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Spring Valley to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding53%Heat waves38%Earthquakes8%

By hazard

What Spring Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Heat waves

38% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Spring Valley flood?

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

18paid claims since 1979

$219Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Spring Valley 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 Spring Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Spring ValleyDeclared for Clark County only

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

Around Spring Valley

Spring Valley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Enterprisemostly inland floodingModerate

Paradisemostly inland floodingModerate

Summerlin Southmostly inland floodingModerate

Spring Valleymostly inland floodingModerate

Las Vegasmostly inland floodingLow

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. Spring Valley covers 52 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Spring Valley’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Spring Valley. 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 Spring Valley total about $74.3M 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.