Natural hazards · Mayfair

Mayfair, CA natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mayfair to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding72%Earthquakes25%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Mayfair faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

25% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesWildfireLandslidesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Mayfair flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fresno County.

Disasters that hit Mayfair

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MayfairDeclared for Fresno County only

Fresno County has had 18 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. Mayfair covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mayfair’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mayfair. 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 Mayfair total about $990K 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.