Natural hazards · Pine Hills

Pine Hills, CA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pine Hills?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pine Hills to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and tsunamis.

Earthquakes47%Tsunamis36%Inland flooding16%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Pine Hills faces

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

Earthquakes

47% of expected damage

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

Tsunamis

36% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

HurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Pine Hills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pine 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: Humboldt County.

Disasters that hit Pine Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pine HillsDeclared for Humboldt County only

Humboldt County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Pine Hills

Pine Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Eurekamostly earthquakesVery high

Cuttenmostly earthquakesVery high

Bayviewmostly earthquakesVery high

Pine Hillsmostly earthquakesVery high

Humboldt Hillmostly earthquakesVery high

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. Pine Hills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pine Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pine 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 Pine Hills total about $5.5M 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.