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Natural hazards · Inglewood

Inglewood, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Inglewood comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1980. 9 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Inglewood?

92
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Inglewood to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes58%Inland flooding42%
By hazard

What Inglewood faces

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

Earthquakes

58% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Inglewood flood?

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

8paid claims since 1980
$11Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19802026

Biggest named events

  • Pineapple Express - Southern: 2 claims, $4K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Inglewood isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Los Angeles County.
Disasters that hit Inglewood

9 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Inglewood itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Inglewood.

Brought FEMA money into InglewoodDeclared for Los Angeles County only
2025

Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds

760 households applied for aid $409K aid approved
2023

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

$34K to the City of Inglewood for repairs
2020

Wildfires

40 households applied for aid
2018

Wildfires

3 households applied for aid
2017

Wildfires, Flooding, Mudflows, and Debris Flows

1 household applied for aid
2008

Wildfires

24 households applied for aid $1K aid approved
2007

Wildfires, Flooding, Mud Flows, and Debris Flows

29 households applied for aid $913 aid approved
2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, Debris Flows, and Mudslides

615 households applied for aid $187K aid approved $53K to the City of Inglewood for repairs
2003

Wildfires, Flooding, Mudflow and Debris Flow Directly Related T

532 households applied for aid $116K aid approved
Los Angeles County has had 74 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.
Around Inglewood

Inglewood and the towns around it

Lennox: Very high, mostly inland floodingLos Angeles: Very high, mostly earthquakesHawthorne: Very high, mostly inland floodingLadera Heights: Very high, mostly earthquakesWestmont: Very high, mostly earthquakesSanta Monica: Very high, mostly earthquakesGlendale: Very high, mostly earthquakesPasadena: Very high, mostly earthquakesRancho Palos Verdes: High, mostly earthquakesBurbank: Very high, mostly earthquakesCarson: Very high, mostly earthquakesWest Rancho Dominguez: Very high, mostly earthquakesVernon: Very high, mostly earthquakesEast Los Angeles: Very high, mostly earthquakesGardena: Very high, mostly inland floodingWest Carson: Very high, mostly earthquakesDel Aire: Very high, mostly inland floodingLawndale: Very high, mostly inland floodingWest Athens: Very high, mostly earthquakesAlondra Park: Very high, mostly earthquakesEl Segundo: Very high, mostly earthquakesCulver City: Very high, mostly earthquakesView Park-Windsor Hills: Very high, mostly earthquakesInglewood: Very high, mostly earthquakes InglewoodLennoxLos AngelesHawthorneLadera HeightsWestmont
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Lennoxmostly inland floodingVery high
Hawthornemostly inland floodingVery high
Los Angelesmostly earthquakesVery high
Inglewoodmostly earthquakesVery high
Ladera Heightsmostly earthquakesVery high
Westmontmostly 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. Inglewood covers 26 census tracts, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Inglewood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Inglewood. 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 Inglewood total about $60.2M 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.

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