Natural hazards · Biggs

Biggs, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Biggs comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1998. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Biggs?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Biggs to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought83%Earthquakes11%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Biggs faces

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

Drought

83% of expected damage

Recorded about 65 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Biggs flood?

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

1paid claims since 1998

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $6K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Biggs 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 Biggs

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BiggsDeclared for Butte County only

2023

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

2 households applied for aid

2020

Wildfires

6 households applied for aid

2018

Wildfires

2 households applied for aid

2017

Wildfires

10 households applied for aid $500 aid approved

Butte County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Biggs 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 Biggs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Biggs. 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.