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Natural hazards · Bangor

Bangor, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bangor comes from drought, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Bangor?

88
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bangor to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought36%Inland flooding32%Wildfire23%Earthquakes7%Everything else1%
By hazard

What Bangor faces

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

Drought

36% of expected damage
Recorded about 67 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

23% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis
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 Bangor flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Bangor isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Butte County.
Disasters that hit Bangor

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Bangor itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Bangor.

Brought FEMA money into BangorDeclared for Butte County only
2023

Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

2 households applied for aid $1K aid approved
2020

Wildfires

16 households applied for aid $3K aid approved
2018

Wildfires

2 households applied for aid
2017

Wildfires

67 households applied for aid $534K aid approved
Butte County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.
Around Bangor

Bangor and the towns around it

Loma Rica: Very high, mostly inland floodingPalermo: Very high, mostly inland floodingOroville East: High, mostly inland floodingSouth Oroville: High, mostly inland floodingOroville: High, mostly inland floodingBangor: Very high, mostly drought BangorLoma RicaPalermo
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Loma Ricamostly inland floodingVery high
Bangormostly droughtVery high
Palermomostly inland floodingVery 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. Bangor is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bangor’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bangor. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.

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