Natural hazards · Indio Hills

Indio Hills, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Indio Hills comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1988.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Indio Hills?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Indio Hills to be higher than in 96% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding60%Earthquakes39%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Indio Hills faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

39% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Indio Hills flood?

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

1paid claims since 1988

$549paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19882026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Riverside County.

Disasters that hit Indio Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Indio HillsDeclared for Riverside County only

Riverside County has had 61 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Indio Hills

Indio Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Indio Hillsmostly inland floodingVery high

Indiomostly earthquakesVery high

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. Indio Hills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Indio Hills’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Indio Hills. 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 Indio Hills total about $5.4M 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.