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Safest Counties From Natural Disasters in New Mexico (2026)

McKinley has the lowest natural disaster risk of any county in New Mexico, at 22.5, followed by Los Alamos and Bernalillo (data vintage 2024). The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: FEMA National Risk Index

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Lowest counties for natural disaster risk in New Mexico

Top 25 of 33 counties with data.

Ranked by natural disaster risk (FEMA National Risk Index, 2024), lowest first.

Lowest counties for natural disaster risk in New Mexico
RankCountyValue
1McKinley22.5
2Los Alamos26.4
3Bernalillo27.9
4Santa Fe30.3
5Cibola33.0
6Sandoval36.4
7San Juan40.4
8Catron41.3
9Harding42.4
10Lincoln43.4
11San Miguel43.5
12Doña Ana48.2
13Otero48.5
14Taos49.7
15Grant50.4
16Valencia50.5
17Mora52.4
18Rio Arriba52.7
19Socorro52.8
20Torrance53.4
21Hidalgo55.8
22Curry56.1
23Sierra57.1
24Colfax57.6
25De Baca59.4

How this ranking works

This page ranks New Mexico counties by natural disaster risk, sorted so the lowest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For natural disaster risk, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh natural disaster risk against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of natural disaster risk.

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