Natural hazards · Richgrove

Richgrove, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Richgrove comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Richgrove?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Richgrove to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes39%Inland flooding34%Heat waves21%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Richgrove faces

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

Earthquakes

39% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

21% 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

TornadoesHailWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Richgrove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Richgrove 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 Richgrove

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into RichgroveDeclared for Tulare County only

2023

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

3 households applied for aid

2020

Wildfires

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