Natural hazards · Fairmead

Fairmead, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairmead comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fairmead?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairmead to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought69%Inland flooding11%Earthquakes9%Heat waves9%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Fairmead faces

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

Drought

69% of expected damage

Recorded about 71 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% 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

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fairmead flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madera County.

Disasters that hit Fairmead

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FairmeadDeclared for Madera County only

Madera County has had 23 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. Fairmead 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 Fairmead’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fairmead. 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.