Natural hazards · Rolling Hills Estates

Rolling Hills Estates, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rolling Hills Estates comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1997. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rolling Hills Estates?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rolling Hills Estates to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes59%Inland flooding40%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Rolling Hills Estates faces

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

Earthquakes

59% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Rolling Hills Estates flood?

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

2paid claims since 1997

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $902

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Los Angeles County.

Disasters that hit Rolling Hills Estates

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Rolling Hills Estates itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Rolling Hills Estates.

Brought FEMA money into Rolling Hills EstatesDeclared for Los Angeles County only

2025

Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds

6 households applied for aid

2023

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

$77K to the City of Rolling Hills Estates for repairs

2020

Wildfires

2 households applied for aid

2017

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

$32K to the City of Rolling Hills Estates for repairs

2010

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Debris and Mud Flows

$30K to the City of Rolling Hills Estates for repairs

2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, Debris Flows, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid $142K to the City of Rolling Hills Estates for repairs

Los Angeles County has had 74 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Rolling Hills Estates

Rolling Hills Estates and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Torrancemostly earthquakesVery high

Lomitamostly earthquakesVery high

Palos Verdes Estatesmostly earthquakesHigh

Rolling Hills Estatesmostly earthquakesHigh

Rancho Palos Verdesmostly earthquakesHigh

Rolling Hillsmostly earthquakesHigh

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. Rolling Hills Estates covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rolling Hills Estates’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Rolling Hills Estates. 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 Rolling Hills Estates total about $5.3M 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.