Natural hazards · Bootjack

Bootjack, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bootjack 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 Bootjack?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Wildfire52%Heat waves27%Inland flooding17%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Bootjack faces

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

Wildfire

52% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

27% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Bootjack flood?

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

Disasters that hit Bootjack

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Mariposa County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Bootjack itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into BootjackDeclared for Mariposa County only

Mariposa County has had 21 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. Bootjack 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 Bootjack’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bootjack. 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.