Natural hazards · Piñon Hills

Piñon Hills, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Piñon Hills comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2025.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Piñon Hills?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Piñon Hills to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes49%Inland flooding36%Wildfire14%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Piñon Hills faces

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

Earthquakes

49% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Wildfire

14% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Piñon Hills flood?

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

2paid claims since 2025

$67Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20252026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Piñon Hills 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 Piñon Hills

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for San Bernardino County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Piñon Hills itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Piñon HillsDeclared for San Bernardino County only

San Bernardino County has had 56 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. Piñon Hills covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Piñon Hills’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Piñon Hills. 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 Piñon Hills total about $7.4M 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.