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Flash Flood — Mora, NM

Aug 26, 2025

Property Damage
$50K
Flood Cause
Heavy Rain / Burn Area

Higher moisture moved into eastern and central New Mexico behind a backdoor front resulting in a greater coverage of showers and thunderstorms across the middle Rio Grande Valley, central mountain chain, and northeast New Mexico. Repeated round of thunderstorms resulted in flash flooding on the Ruidoso area burn scars, State Highway 117 in central Cibola County south of Grants and downstream of the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon burn scar on State Highways 58 and 434 just north of Cleveland and Mo

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1279759). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Mora, NM

This event is one of many recorded floods in Mora County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.

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