Natural hazards · Wadsworth

Wadsworth, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wadsworth comes from avalanches, 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 Wadsworth?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wadsworth to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches60%Inland flooding19%Earthquakes11%Wildfire6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Wadsworth faces

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

Avalanches

60% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesTsunamis

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 Wadsworth flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Washoe County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone homes bought out and moved

Disasters that hit Wadsworth

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WadsworthDeclared for Washoe County only

Washoe County has had 47 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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