Natural hazards · Dales

Dales, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dales 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 Dales?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dales to be higher than in 96% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding58%Wildfire19%Drought11%Earthquakes9%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Dales faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

19% of expected damage

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

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 90 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Dales flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tehama County.

Disasters that hit Dales

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DalesDeclared for Tehama County only

Tehama County has had 23 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. Dales 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 Dales’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dales. 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.