Natural hazards · Camp Pendleton Mainside

Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Camp Pendleton Mainside 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Camp Pendleton Mainside to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire54%Inland flooding30%Earthquakes12%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Camp Pendleton Mainside faces

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

Wildfire

54% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtTsunamis

Not a risk here

Ice stormsCold wavesAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Camp Pendleton Mainside.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: San Diego County.

Disasters that hit Camp Pendleton Mainside

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for San Diego County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Camp Pendleton Mainside itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Camp Pendleton MainsideDeclared for San Diego County only

San Diego County has had 44 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. Camp Pendleton Mainside 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Camp Pendleton Mainside. 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.