Natural hazards · La Crescenta-Montrose

La Crescenta-Montrose, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in La Crescenta-Montrose comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is La Crescenta-Montrose?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in La Crescenta-Montrose to be higher than in 87% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding44%Earthquakes40%Wildfire15%Everything else2%

By hazard

What La Crescenta-Montrose faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Wildfire

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 La Crescenta-Montrose flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in La Crescenta-Montrose, from FEMA’s records.

9paid claims since 1978

$83Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. La Crescenta-Montrose 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 La Crescenta-Montrose

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Los Angeles County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching La Crescenta-Montrose itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into La Crescenta-MontroseDeclared for Los Angeles County only

Los Angeles County has had 74 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around La Crescenta-Montrose

La Crescenta-Montrose and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Glendalemostly earthquakesVery high

La Cañada Flintridgemostly earthquakesVery high

La Crescenta-Montrosemostly inland floodingVery 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. La Crescenta-Montrose covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to La Crescenta-Montrose’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to La Crescenta-Montrose. 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 La Crescenta-Montrose total about $10.2M 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.