Natural hazards · Frazier Park

Frazier Park, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Frazier Park comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1998. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Frazier Park?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Frazier Park to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes47%Inland flooding29%Wildfire22%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Frazier Park faces

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

Earthquakes

47% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Wildfire

22% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Frazier Park flood?

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

7paid claims since 1998

$211Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $12K
Tropical Storm Hilary: 1 claim, $27K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kern County.

Disasters that hit Frazier Park

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Frazier Park itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Frazier Park.

Brought FEMA money into Frazier ParkDeclared for Kern County only

2023

Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

12 households applied for aid $88K aid approved

2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, Debris Flows, and Mudslides

3 households applied for aid $314 aid approved

Kern County has had 37 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. Frazier Park covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Frazier Park’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Frazier Park. 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 Frazier Park 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.