Natural hazards · Oak Glen

Oak Glen, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Oak Glen comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2022. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Oak Glen?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Oak Glen to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and earthquakes.

Wildfire59%Earthquakes21%Inland flooding18%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Oak Glen faces

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

Wildfire

59% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

21% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Oak Glen flood?

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

3paid claims since 2022

$197Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: San Bernardino County.

Disasters that hit Oak Glen

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Oak GlenDeclared for San Bernardino County only

2020

Wildfires

1 household applied for aid

San Bernardino County has had 56 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Oak Glen

Oak Glen and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Oak Glenmostly wildfiresVery high

Yucaipamostly 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. Oak Glen covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Oak Glen’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Oak Glen. 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 Oak Glen total about $11.1M 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.