Natural hazards · Fruitridge Pocket

Fruitridge Pocket, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fruitridge Pocket comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2019.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fruitridge Pocket?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fruitridge Pocket to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes51%Inland flooding41%Heat waves6%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Fruitridge Pocket faces

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

Earthquakes

51% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesLandslidesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Fruitridge Pocket flood?

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

1paid claims since 2019

$9Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20192026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Fruitridge Pocket 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 Fruitridge Pocket

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fruitridge PocketDeclared for Sacramento County only

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

Around Fruitridge Pocket

Fruitridge Pocket and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sacramentomostly earthquakesLow

Fruitridge Pocketmostly earthquakesVery low

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. Fruitridge Pocket covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fruitridge Pocket’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fruitridge Pocket. 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 Fruitridge Pocket total about $356K 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.