Natural hazards · Los Berros

Los Berros, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Los Berros 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 Los Berros?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Los Berros to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding69%Earthquakes18%Wildfire8%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Los Berros faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

18% of expected damage

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

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Los Berros flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Los Berros.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: San Luis Obispo County.

Disasters that hit Los Berros

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for San Luis Obispo County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Los Berros itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Los BerrosDeclared for San Luis Obispo County only

San Luis Obispo County has had 24 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. Los Berros 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 Los Berros’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Los Berros. 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.