Natural hazards · Florence-Graham

Florence-Graham, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Florence-Graham comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1995.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Florence-Graham?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes83%Inland flooding16%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Florence-Graham faces

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

Earthquakes

83% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailHeat wavesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Florence-Graham flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Florence-Graham, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1995

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19952026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Los Angeles County.

Disasters that hit Florence-Graham

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Los Angeles County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Florence-Graham itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Florence-GrahamDeclared for Los Angeles County only

Los Angeles County has had 74 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Florence-Graham

Florence-Graham and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Los Angelesmostly earthquakesVery high

Florence-Grahammostly earthquakesVery high

Huntington Parkmostly earthquakesVery high

South Gatemostly earthquakesVery high

Walnut Parkmostly 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. Florence-Graham covers 13 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Florence-Graham’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Florence-Graham. 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 Florence-Graham total about $23.8M 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.