Natural hazards · Whitney

Whitney, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Whitney comes from heat waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1992.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Whitney?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Whitney to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from heat waves and inland flooding.

Heat waves43%Inland flooding42%Earthquakes14%

By hazard

What Whitney faces

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

Heat waves

43% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% 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 Whitney flood?

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

10paid claims since 1992

$423Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19922026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Whitney 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 Whitney

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WhitneyDeclared for Clark County only

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

Around Whitney

Whitney and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Paradisemostly inland floodingModerate

Whitneymostly heat wavesModerate

Hendersonmostly inland floodingLow

Sunrise Manormostly heat wavesLow

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. Whitney covers 9 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Whitney’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Whitney. 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 Whitney total about $13.4M 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.