Natural hazards · Madera Acres

Madera Acres, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Madera Acres comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Madera Acres?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Madera Acres to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding55%Earthquakes27%Heat waves10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Madera Acres faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

27% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Madera Acres flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madera County.

Disasters that hit Madera Acres

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Madera AcresDeclared for Madera County only

Madera County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Madera Acres

Madera Acres and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Maderamostly inland floodingVery high

Madera Acresmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Madera Acres covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Madera Acres’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Madera Acres. 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 Madera Acres total about $1.7M 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.