Natural hazards · Lost Hills

Lost Hills, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lost Hills comes from earthquakes, 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 Lost Hills?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lost Hills to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes43%Inland flooding31%Heat waves19%Drought5%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Lost Hills faces

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

Earthquakes

43% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 81 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Lost Hills flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Lost Hills.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kern County.

Disasters that hit Lost Hills

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Kern County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Lost Hills itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Lost HillsDeclared for Kern County only

Kern County has had 37 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. Lost Hills 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 Lost Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lost Hills. 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.