Natural hazards · Madeline

Madeline, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Madeline 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 Madeline?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Madeline to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding42%Wildfire41%Drought13%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Madeline faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Wildfire

41% of expected damage

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

Drought

13% of expected damage

Recorded about 94 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsTsunamis

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 Madeline flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lassen County.

Disasters that hit Madeline

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MadelineDeclared for Lassen County only

Lassen County has had 16 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. Madeline 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 Madeline’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Madeline. 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.