Natural hazards · Parkway

Parkway, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Parkway comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 64 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Parkway?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Parkway to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes53%Inland flooding42%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Parkway faces

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

Earthquakes

53% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesWildfireDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Parkway flood?

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

64paid claims since 1983

$849Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $750

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sacramento County.

Disasters that hit Parkway

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParkwayDeclared for Sacramento County only

Sacramento County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Parkway

Parkway and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Florinmostly inland floodingLow

Sacramentomostly earthquakesLow

Parkwaymostly earthquakesVery low

Lemon Hillmostly earthquakesVery low

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. Parkway covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Parkway’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Parkway. 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 Parkway total about $2.1M 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.