Natural hazards · Burbank

Burbank, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Burbank comes from earthquakes, 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 Burbank?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Burbank to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes58%Inland flooding41%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Burbank faces

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

Earthquakes

58% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Burbank flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Santa Clara County.

Disasters that hit Burbank

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BurbankDeclared for Santa Clara County only

Santa Clara County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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