New Mexico

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$104.3B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

49.7

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 33 counties

Wildfire

86.61 Avg Risk Score

Drought

75.26 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

60.07 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

58.98 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

53.8 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

53.7 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

53.04 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

48.42 Avg Risk Score

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

drought 9 events

$81.9B

wildfire 7 events

$11.2B

severe-storm 6 events

$11.3B

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	Bernalillo	89.47	Relatively Moderate	79.3%
2	Lea	87.66	Relatively Moderate	94.0%
3	Doña Ana	87.62	Relatively Moderate	98.7%
4	Otero	85.84	Relatively Moderate	92.9%
5	Roosevelt	84.47	Relatively Moderate	95.1%
6	Santa Fe	81.2	Relatively Low	76.3%
7	Lincoln	79.22	Relatively Low	83.5%
8	Sandoval	78.94	Relatively Low	39.3%
9	Valencia	73.62	Relatively Low	88.2%
10	San Juan	69.81	Relatively Low	96.7%