Natural hazards · Lagunitas-Forest Knolls

Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lagunitas-Forest Knolls?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding59%Earthquakes30%Wildfire8%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Lagunitas-Forest Knolls faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Lagunitas-Forest Knolls flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marin County.

Disasters that hit Lagunitas-Forest Knolls

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Marin County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Lagunitas-Forest Knolls itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Lagunitas-Forest KnollsDeclared for Marin County only

Marin County has had 22 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. Lagunitas-Forest Knolls 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 Lagunitas-Forest Knolls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lagunitas-Forest Knolls. 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.