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Floods in New Mexico

Property owners in New Mexico have filed 1,929 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $41.8 million paid.

  • 1,929flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $41.8Mpaid on those claims
  • 2024most claims in one year, 296
  • 46thamong the states for claims
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  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in New Mexico per year 1978: 27 1979: 35 1980: 41 1981: 22 1982: 10 1983: 7 1984: 34 1985: 18 1986: 13 1987: 11 1988: 54 1989: 1 1990: 17 1991: 12 1992: 83 1993: 2 1994: 14 1995: 26 1996: 28 1997: 11 1998: 6 1999: 34 2000: 29 2001: 16 2002: 25 2003: 9 2004: 49 2005: 31 2006: 193 2007: 22 2008: 85 2009: 20 2010: 42 2011: 15 2012: 16 2013: 98 2014: 58 2015: 36 2016: 30 2017: 41 2018: 25 2019: 17 2020: 6 2021: 58 2022: 22 2023: 14 2024: 296 296 2025: 159 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events
Jul 14, 1996Flash FloodChaves4—

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in New Mexico
Lincoln County269
Lea County208
Doña Ana County208
Bernalillo County173
San Miguel County139
Chaves County132
Otero County130
Valencia County125
Mora County64
Curry County56
Santa Fe County53
Sandoval County51
Eddy County51
San Juan County48
Rio Arriba County31
Roosevelt County30
Cibola County28
Taos County24
Socorro County23
McKinley County20
Sierra County15
Quay County11
Los Alamos County10
Grant County9
Colfax County8
Catron County5
Luna County4
Hidalgo County3
Torrance County1

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency’s website(s).