Humboldt County, Nevada: hazard history

FEMA declared 8 disasters that named Humboldt County between 1977 and 2020.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3443 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4523 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• DR-4307 2017 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, And Mudslides
• EM-3243 2005 · Hurricane · Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
• EM-3204 2005 · Snowstorm · Snow
• EM-3202 2004 · Snowstorm · Record And/or Near Record Snow
• DR-759 1986 · Flood · Severe Storms & Flooding
• EM-3041 1977 · Drought · Drought

Not counted above: 21 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Nevada. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone.

NOAA storm event records in Humboldt County each year. The busiest year was 2022, with 61 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Flood · Feb 7, 2017$3.0M
   NOAA name: HUMBOLDT · NOAA record 681493
2. Dust Storm · Jun 10, 2013$1.5M
   NOAA name: HUMBOLDT · 1 death · NOAA record 447566
3. High Wind · Mar 30, 2017$60K
   NOAA name: HUMBOLDT · NOAA record 681958
4. Thunderstorm Wind · Aug 13, 2012$50K
   NOAA name: HUMBOLDT · NOAA record 409295
5. Flash Flood · May 31, 2009$30K
   NOAA name: HUMBOLDT · NOAA record 171686

Deadliest records

1. Dust Storm · Jun 10, 20131 death
   NOAA name: HUMBOLDT · $1.5M damage · NOAA record 447566

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $79K on 16 claims in Humboldt County from 1984 to 2017.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Humboldt County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Humboldt County when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for Nevada yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: HUMBOLDT. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 52% of Nevada's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.