Natural hazards · North Auburn

North Auburn, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in North Auburn comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2016.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is North Auburn?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in North Auburn to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches80%Inland flooding14%Everything else6%

By hazard

What North Auburn faces

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

Avalanches

80% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamis

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 North Auburn flood?

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

5paid claims since 2016

$75Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20162026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Placer County.

Disasters that hit North Auburn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into North AuburnDeclared for Placer County only

Placer County has had 24 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. North Auburn covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to North Auburn’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to North Auburn. 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 North Auburn total about $8.4M 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.