Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Rio Arriba, NM

New Mexico · pop. 40,200 · FIPS 35039

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Wildfire
dominant hazard
$27M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Rio Arriba $27M

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 Low 80.5/100
national median ~50 higher than 81% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 91.7/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 9.35/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Rio Arriba

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 31 flood-insurance claims totaling $329K in Rio Arriba since 1980. The costliest year was 2013 ($186K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1980: $3,480 paid 1981: $2,950 paid 1983: $0 paid 1984: $5,520 paid 1991: $717 paid 1994: $433 paid 1995: $0 paid 1997: $2,750 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $776 paid 2005: $3,979 paid 2006: $41,896 paid 2007: $8,944 paid 2008: $11,127 paid 2013: $185,683 paid 2014: $52,570 paid 2015: $0 paid 2018: $8,560 paid 2013 · $186K 1980 2018
$329K
total paid
$10,625
average claim
$172K
largest single claim
61%
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 Rio Arriba, NM and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Rio Arriba 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.