Natural hazards · Mead Valley

Mead Valley, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mead Valley comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mead Valley?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mead Valley to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and earthquakes.

Wildfire51%Earthquakes25%Inland flooding23%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Mead Valley faces

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

Wildfire

51% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

25% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce 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 Mead Valley flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Mead Valley, from FEMA’s records.

7paid claims since 1980

$155Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $31K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Riverside County.

Disasters that hit Mead Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mead ValleyDeclared for Riverside County only

Riverside County has had 61 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Mead Valley

Mead Valley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Good Hopemostly wildfiresVery high

Lake Mathewsmostly wildfiresVery high

Mead Valleymostly wildfiresVery high

Perrismostly inland floodingVery high

Woodcrestmostly inland floodingVery high

March ARBmostly earthquakesVery high

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. Mead Valley covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mead Valley’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mead Valley. 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 Mead Valley total about $15.7M 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.