Natural hazards · Bodfish

Bodfish, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bodfish comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bodfish?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bodfish to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire66%Inland flooding20%Earthquakes9%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Bodfish faces

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

Wildfire

66% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamis

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 Bodfish flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Bodfish 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 Bodfish

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BodfishDeclared for Kern County only

2023

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

101 households applied for aid $358K aid approved

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

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. Bodfish 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 Bodfish’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bodfish. 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.