Natural hazards · Oroville East

Oroville East, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Oroville East comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 16 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Oroville East?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Oroville East to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding59%Wildfire30%Earthquakes8%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Oroville East faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Oroville East flood?

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

16paid claims since 1996

$341Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butte County.

Disasters that hit Oroville East

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Oroville EastDeclared for Butte County only

Butte County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

Around Oroville East

Oroville East and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Palermomostly inland floodingVery high

Oroville Eastmostly inland floodingHigh

Kelly Ridgemostly inland floodingHigh

South Orovillemostly inland floodingHigh

Orovillemostly inland floodingHigh

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. Oroville East covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Oroville East’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Oroville East. 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 Oroville East total about $2.6M 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.