Natural hazards · Bear Valley Springs

Bear Valley Springs, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bear Valley Springs comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bear Valley Springs?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bear Valley Springs to be higher than in 97% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire53%Inland flooding37%Earthquakes7%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Bear Valley Springs faces

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

Wildfire

53% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bear Valley Springs flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Bear Valley Springs.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kern County.

Disasters that hit Bear Valley Springs

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Kern County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Bear Valley Springs itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Bear Valley SpringsDeclared for Kern County only

Kern County has had 37 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Bear Valley Springs

Bear Valley Springs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bear Valley Springsmostly wildfiresVery high

Keenemostly inland floodingVery high

Tehachapimostly wildfiresVery 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. Bear Valley Springs covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bear Valley Springs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bear Valley Springs. 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 Bear Valley Springs total about $7.3M 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.