Natural hazards · Goshen

Goshen, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Goshen comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Goshen?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Goshen to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding43%Earthquakes34%Heat waves19%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Goshen faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Heat waves

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Goshen flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Goshen.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tulare County.

Disasters that hit Goshen

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GoshenDeclared for Tulare County only

Tulare County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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. Goshen 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 Goshen’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Goshen. 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.