Natural hazards · Avenal

Avenal, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avenal comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avenal?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avenal to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and heat waves.

Earthquakes59%Heat waves20%Inland flooding18%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Avenal faces

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

Earthquakes

59% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Heat waves

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Avenal flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Avenal.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kings County.

Disasters that hit Avenal

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AvenalDeclared for Kings County only

Kings County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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. Avenal covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Avenal’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Avenal. 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 Avenal total about $2.3M 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.