Natural hazards · Fort Jones

Fort Jones, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fort Jones comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1996. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fort Jones?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fort Jones to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire43%Inland flooding37%Avalanches12%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Fort Jones faces

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

Wildfire

43% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Avalanches

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Fort Jones flood?

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

2paid claims since 1996

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $1K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Siskiyou County.

Disasters that hit Fort Jones

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Fort Jones itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Fort Jones.

Brought FEMA money into Fort JonesDeclared for Siskiyou County only

2022

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid

2020

Wildfires

3 households applied for aid

2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, and Landslides

51 households applied for aid $60K aid approved $35K to the City of Fort Jones for repairs

Siskiyou County has had 20 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. Fort Jones 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 Fort Jones’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Fort Jones. 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.