Natural hazards · Elk Creek

Elk Creek, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Elk Creek 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 Elk Creek?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Elk Creek to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and wildfires.

Drought62%Wildfire16%Inland flooding13%Earthquakes9%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Elk Creek faces

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

Drought

62% of expected damage

Recorded about 87 times a year in the area

Wildfire

16% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamis

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 Elk Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Glenn County.

Disasters that hit Elk Creek

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Glenn County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Elk Creek itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Elk CreekDeclared for Glenn County only

Glenn County has had 19 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. Elk Creek 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 Elk Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Elk Creek. 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.