Nevada

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$82.9B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

67.77

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 17 counties

Earthquake

85.21 Avg Risk Score

Wildfire

82.96 Avg Risk Score

Drought

82.19 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

62.54 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

53.29 Avg Risk Score

Avalanche

39.9 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

39.45 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

38.01 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

drought 5 events

$68.9B

wildfire 5 events

$7.9B

flooding 3 events

$5.6B

severe-storm 1 events

$0.5B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Clark	99.3	Relatively High	86.4%
2	Washoe	98.63	Relatively High	69.7%
3	Elko	92.84	Relatively Moderate	61.9%
4	Carson City	90.55	Relatively Moderate	85.1%
5	Lyon	87.85	Relatively Moderate	55.9%
6	Douglas	87.27	Relatively Moderate	20.6%
7	Humboldt	82.98	Relatively Moderate	61.6%
8	Nye	78.91	Relatively Low	79.5%
9	Churchill	73.4	Relatively Low	62.7%
10	Lander	60.74	Relatively Low	57.6%