Natural hazards · Clearlake Riviera

Clearlake Riviera, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Clearlake Riviera comes from avalanches, 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 Clearlake Riviera?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clearlake Riviera to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches34%Inland flooding31%Earthquakes12%Wildfire12%Drought10%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Clearlake Riviera faces

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

Avalanches

34% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Wildfire

12% of expected damage

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

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 52 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic 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 Clearlake Riviera flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lake County.

Disasters that hit Clearlake Riviera

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Clearlake RivieraDeclared for Lake County only

Lake County has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Clearlake Riviera 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 Clearlake Riviera’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Clearlake Riviera. 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.