Natural hazards · Foothill Farms

Foothill Farms, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Foothill Farms comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1986.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Foothill Farms?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Foothill Farms to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding69%Earthquakes26%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Foothill Farms faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

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 Foothill Farms flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Foothill Farms, from FEMA’s records.

9paid claims since 1986

$148Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19862026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $1K
California Atmospheric River: 1 claim, $979

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sacramento County.

Disasters that hit Foothill Farms

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Foothill FarmsDeclared for Sacramento County only

Sacramento County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Foothill Farms

Foothill Farms and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Citrus Heightsmostly inland floodingModerate

Antelopemostly inland floodingLow

Carmichaelmostly inland floodingLow

North Highlandsmostly inland floodingLow

Foothill Farmsmostly inland floodingLow

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. Foothill Farms covers 8 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Foothill Farms’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Foothill Farms. 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 Foothill Farms total about $4.5M 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.