Natural hazards · Dustin Acres

Dustin Acres, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dustin Acres 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 Dustin Acres?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dustin Acres to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes60%Inland flooding24%Heat waves11%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Dustin Acres faces

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

Earthquakes

60% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Dustin Acres flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kern County.

Disasters that hit Dustin Acres

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Kern County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Dustin Acres itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Dustin AcresDeclared for Kern County only

Kern County has had 37 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. Dustin Acres 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 Dustin Acres’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dustin Acres. 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.