Natural hazards · Samoa

Samoa, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Samoa comes from tsunamis, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Samoa?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Samoa to be higher than in 97% of U.S. communities, mostly from tsunamis and earthquakes.

Tsunamis69%Earthquakes24%Inland flooding6%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Samoa faces

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

Tsunamis

69% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

24% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

HurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Samoa flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Humboldt County.

Disasters that hit Samoa

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SamoaDeclared for Humboldt County only

Humboldt County has had 23 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. Samoa 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 Samoa’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Samoa. 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.