Natural hazards · Crescent Mills

Crescent Mills, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crescent Mills comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 19 claims here since 1995. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Crescent Mills?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crescent Mills to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding59%Wildfire35%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Crescent Mills faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

35% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Crescent Mills flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Crescent Mills, from FEMA’s records.

19paid claims since 1995

$818Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19952026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Plumas County.

Disasters that hit Crescent Mills

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Crescent Mills itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Crescent Mills.

Brought FEMA money into Crescent MillsDeclared for Plumas County only

2021

Wildfires

28 households applied for aid $134K aid approved

Plumas County has had 20 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. Crescent Mills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Crescent Mills’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Crescent Mills. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Crescent Mills total about $7.4M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.