Natural hazards · Greenfield

Greenfield, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Greenfield comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Greenfield?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Greenfield to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes60%Inland flooding27%Heat waves12%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Greenfield faces

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

Earthquakes

60% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWildfireStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Greenfield flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Greenfield 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 Greenfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreenfieldDeclared for Kern County only

Kern County has had 37 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Greenfield

Greenfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Greenfieldmostly earthquakesHigh

Bakersfieldmostly earthquakesHigh

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