Natural hazards · Mecca

Mecca, CA natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mecca to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes64%Inland flooding34%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Mecca faces

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

Earthquakes

64% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Mecca flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Mecca 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 Mecca

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MeccaDeclared for Riverside County only

Riverside County has had 61 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. Mecca covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mecca’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mecca. 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 Mecca total about $3.7M 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.