Natural hazards · Yerington

Yerington, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yerington comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yerington?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yerington to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes73%Inland flooding24%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Yerington faces

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

Earthquakes

73% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Yerington flood?

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

2paid claims since 1997

$86Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lyon County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2homes raised above flood level

Disasters that hit Yerington

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into YeringtonDeclared for Lyon County only

Lyon County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe 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. Yerington covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Yerington’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Yerington. 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 Yerington total about $2.3M 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.