Natural hazards · Desert Edge

Desert Edge, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Desert Edge comes from earthquakes, 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 Desert Edge?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes61%Inland flooding39%

By hazard

What Desert Edge faces

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

Earthquakes

61% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesLandslidesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Desert Edge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Riverside County.

Disasters that hit Desert Edge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Desert EdgeDeclared for Riverside County only

Riverside County has had 61 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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. Desert Edge covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Desert Edge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Desert Edge. 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 Desert Edge total about $4.1M 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.