Natural hazards · Lemon Hill

Lemon Hill, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lemon Hill comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2017.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lemon Hill?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lemon Hill to be higher than in 14% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes51%Inland flooding42%Heat waves6%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Lemon Hill faces

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

Earthquakes

51% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesWildfireDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Lemon Hill flood?

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

1paid claims since 2017

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sacramento County.

Disasters that hit Lemon Hill

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Sacramento County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Lemon Hill itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Lemon HillDeclared for Sacramento County only

Sacramento County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Lemon Hill

Lemon Hill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sacramentomostly earthquakesLow

Parkwaymostly earthquakesVery low

Lemon Hillmostly earthquakesVery low

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. Lemon Hill covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lemon Hill’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lemon Hill. 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 Lemon Hill total about $1.1M 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.