Natural hazards · Fairview

Fairview, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairview 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 Fairview?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairview to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes71%Inland flooding27%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Fairview faces

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

Earthquakes

71% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Fairview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Alameda County.

Disasters that hit Fairview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FairviewDeclared for Alameda County only

Alameda County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Fairview

Fairview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Haywardmostly earthquakesVery high

Castro Valleymostly earthquakesVery high

Fairviewmostly earthquakesVery high

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. Fairview covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fairview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fairview. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Fairview total about $6.4M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.