Natural hazards · Desert View Highlands

Desert View Highlands, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Desert View Highlands 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 View Highlands?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Desert View Highlands to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes67%Inland flooding31%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Desert View Highlands faces

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

Earthquakes

67% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 View Highlands flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Los Angeles County.

Disasters that hit Desert View Highlands

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Los Angeles County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Desert View Highlands itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Desert View HighlandsDeclared for Los Angeles County only

Los Angeles County has had 74 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 View Highlands 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 Desert View Highlands’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Desert View Highlands. 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.