Natural hazards · Rolling Hills

Rolling Hills, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rolling Hills comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rolling Hills?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rolling Hills to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes58%Inland flooding38%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Rolling Hills faces

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

Earthquakes

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% 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 flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Rolling 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: Los Angeles County.

Disasters that hit Rolling Hills

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Rolling HillsDeclared for Los Angeles County only

2025

Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds

3 households applied for aid

2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mud and Debris Flows

$50K to the City of Rolling Hills for repairs

2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, Debris Flows, and Mudslides

2 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

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

Around Rolling Hills

Rolling Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

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 covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rolling Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Rolling 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 Rolling Hills total about $1.6M 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.