Natural hazards · Angels

Angels, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Angels comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1980.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Angels?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Angels to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire54%Inland flooding35%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Angels faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Wildfire

54% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamis

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Angels flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Angels, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 1980

$14Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Angels isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Calaveras County.

Disasters that hit Angels

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Calaveras County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Angels itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into AngelsDeclared for Calaveras County only

Calaveras County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Angels covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Angels’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Angels. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Angels total about $3.5M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.