Natural hazards · Parklawn

Parklawn, CA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Parklawn?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Parklawn to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes82%Inland flooding15%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Parklawn faces

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

Earthquakes

82% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Parklawn flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stanislaus County.

Disasters that hit Parklawn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParklawnDeclared for Stanislaus County only

Stanislaus County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Parklawn

Parklawn and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Modestomostly inland floodingHigh

Parklawnmostly earthquakesModerate

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