Natural hazards · Dos Palos Y

Dos Palos Y, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dos Palos Y comes from drought, 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 Dos Palos Y?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dos Palos Y to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and earthquakes.

Drought68%Earthquakes20%Inland flooding10%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Dos Palos Y faces

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

Drought

68% of expected damage

Recorded about 69 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Dos Palos Y flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Dos Palos Y.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Merced County.

Disasters that hit Dos Palos Y

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Merced County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Dos Palos Y itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Dos Palos YDeclared for Merced County only

Merced County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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. Dos Palos Y 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 Dos Palos Y’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dos Palos Y. 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.