Natural hazards · Cleone

Cleone, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cleone comes from inland flooding, 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 Cleone?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding47%Earthquakes41%Wildfire9%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Cleone faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

41% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesIce stormsCold waves

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 Cleone flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mendocino County.

Disasters that hit Cleone

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CleoneDeclared for Mendocino County only

Mendocino County has had 26 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. Cleone 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 Cleone’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cleone. 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.