Natural hazards · Pixley

Pixley, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pixley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2010. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pixley?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pixley to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding37%Earthquakes31%Heat waves24%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Pixley faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Heat waves

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Pixley flood?

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

1paid claims since 2010

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tulare County.

Disasters that hit Pixley

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pixley itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Pixley.

Brought FEMA money into PixleyDeclared for Tulare County only

2023

Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

8 households applied for aid $300 aid approved

2020

Wildfires

2 households applied for aid

Tulare County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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. Pixley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pixley’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pixley. 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 Pixley total about $4.9M 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.