Natural hazards · Myrtletown

Myrtletown, CA natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes50%Coastal flooding32%Inland flooding12%Tsunamis6%

By hazard

What Myrtletown faces

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

Earthquakes

50% of expected damage

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

Coastal flooding

32% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tsunamis

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

HurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Myrtletown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Humboldt County.

Disasters that hit Myrtletown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MyrtletownDeclared for Humboldt County only

Humboldt County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Myrtletown

Myrtletown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Myrtletownmostly earthquakesVery high

Eurekamostly earthquakesVery high

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

Myrtletown, CA natural hazards

How exposed is Myrtletown?

What Myrtletown faces

Earthquakes

Coastal flooding

Inland flooding

Tsunamis

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Myrtletown flood?

Federal disasters declared here

Myrtletown and the towns around it

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