Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Doña Ana, NM

New Mexico · pop. 218,940 · FIPS 35013

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$164M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

near the national middle (51st percentile)

national median $15M/yr Doña Ana $164M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively High 96.09/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 67.46/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (67th percentile)
Community resilienceVery Low 4.55/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Doña Ana

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 208 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.9M in Doña Ana since 1978. The costliest year was 2006 ($3.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $23,775 paid 1979: $16,255 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $2,600 paid 1988: $2,615 paid 1991: $0 paid 1994: $33,782 paid 1996: $0 paid 1997: $2,043 paid 1998: $34,594 paid 2000: $11,600 paid 2001: $3,743 paid 2002: $0 paid 2004: $21,841 paid 2005: $108,651 paid 2006: $3,856,120 paid 2008: $86,555 paid 2009: $0 paid 2010: $159,421 paid 2011: $9,779 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $290,539 paid 2015: $22,566 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $8,175 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $0 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $11,410 paid 2022: $76,758 paid 2023: $0 paid 2025: $108,729 paid 2026: $0 paid 2006 · $3.9M 1978 2026
$4.9M
total paid
$23,517
average claim
$275K
largest single claim
73%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Doña Ana, NM and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Doña Ana is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.