Natural hazards · Avocado Heights

Avocado Heights, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avocado Heights comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1998.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avocado Heights?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avocado Heights to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes54%Inland flooding45%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Avocado Heights faces

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

Earthquakes

54% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Avocado Heights flood?

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

1paid claims since 1998

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Los Angeles County.

Disasters that hit Avocado Heights

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Los Angeles County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Avocado Heights itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Avocado HeightsDeclared for Los Angeles County only

Los Angeles County has had 74 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Avocado Heights

Avocado Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Avocado Heightsmostly earthquakesVery high

Industrymostly earthquakesVery high

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. Avocado Heights covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Avocado Heights’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Avocado Heights. 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 Avocado Heights total about $6.2M 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.