Natural hazards · Cuyama

Cuyama, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cuyama comes from landslides, 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 Cuyama?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cuyama to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from landslides and drought.

Landslides49%Drought44%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Cuyama faces

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

Landslides

49% of expected damage

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

Drought

44% of expected damage

Recorded about 94 times a year in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Cuyama flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cuyama 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 Barbara County.

Disasters that hit Cuyama

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CuyamaDeclared for Santa Barbara County only

Santa Barbara County has had 35 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. Cuyama 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 Cuyama’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cuyama. 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.