Natural hazards · Mission Hills

Mission Hills, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mission Hills comes from drought, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mission Hills?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mission Hills to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought51%Inland flooding21%Landslides15%Earthquakes8%Wildfire5%

By hazard

What Mission Hills faces

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

Drought

51% of expected damage

Recorded about 76 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Landslides

15% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

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

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailHeat wavesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Mission Hills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Santa Barbara County.

Disasters that hit Mission Hills

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Mission Hills itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Mission Hills.

Brought FEMA money into Mission HillsDeclared for Santa Barbara County only

2017

Wildfires, Flooding, Mudflows, and Debris Flows

1 household applied for aid

2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, Debris Flows, and Mudslides

12 households applied for aid $8K aid approved

Santa Barbara County has had 35 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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. Mission Hills 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 Mission Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mission Hills. 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.