Natural hazards · Old Stine

Old Stine, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Old Stine comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Old Stine?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Old Stine to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes48%Inland flooding37%Heat waves15%

By hazard

What Old Stine faces

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

Earthquakes

48% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Old Stine flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kern County.

Disasters that hit Old Stine

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Old StineDeclared for Kern County only

Kern County has had 37 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. Old Stine covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Old Stine’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Old Stine. 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 Old Stine total about $718K 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.