Natural hazards · Dollar Point

Dollar Point, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dollar Point comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dollar Point?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dollar Point to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding52%Earthquakes41%Wildfire6%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Dollar Point faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

41% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Dollar Point flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Placer County.

Disasters that hit Dollar Point

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Dollar PointDeclared for Placer County only

Placer County has had 24 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. Dollar Point 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 Dollar Point’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dollar Point. 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.