Natural hazards · Rollingwood

Rollingwood, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rollingwood comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2016.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rollingwood?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rollingwood to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes76%Inland flooding22%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Rollingwood faces

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

Earthquakes

76% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Rollingwood flood?

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

1paid claims since 2016

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20162026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Contra Costa County.

Disasters that hit Rollingwood

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Contra Costa County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Rollingwood itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into RollingwoodDeclared for Contra Costa County only

Contra Costa County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Rollingwood

Rollingwood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rollingwoodmostly earthquakesVery high

San Pablomostly earthquakesVery high

El Sobrantemostly 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. Rollingwood covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rollingwood’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Rollingwood. 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 Rollingwood total about $6.1M 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.