Natural hazards · Dobbins

Dobbins, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dobbins comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dobbins?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dobbins to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire70%Inland flooding26%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Dobbins faces

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

Wildfire

70% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamis

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 Dobbins flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yuba County.

Disasters that hit Dobbins

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DobbinsDeclared for Yuba County only

2017

Wildfires

1 household applied for aid

Yuba 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. Dobbins covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dobbins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dobbins. 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 Dobbins total about $1.6M 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.