Natural hazards · Lake Don Pedro

Lake Don Pedro, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lake Don Pedro comes from wildfires, 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 Lake Don Pedro?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lake Don Pedro to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and heat waves.

Wildfire52%Heat waves24%Inland flooding14%Landslides8%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Lake Don Pedro faces

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

Wildfire

52% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Landslides

8% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamis

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 Lake Don Pedro flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Lake Don Pedro.

Disasters that hit Lake Don Pedro

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Mariposa County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Lake Don Pedro itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Lake Don PedroDeclared for Mariposa County only

Mariposa County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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