Natural hazards · Brooks

Brooks, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brooks comes from drought, 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 Brooks?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Drought42%Earthquakes26%Inland flooding25%Wildfire6%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Brooks faces

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

Drought

42% of expected damage

Recorded about 84 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

25% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Brooks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yolo County.

Disasters that hit Brooks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrooksDeclared for Yolo County only

Yolo County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Brooks 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 Brooks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Brooks. 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.