Natural hazards · Santa Venetia

Santa Venetia, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Santa Venetia comes from coastal flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 187 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Santa Venetia?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Santa Venetia to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from coastal flooding and inland flooding.

Coastal flooding42%Inland flooding40%Earthquakes17%

By hazard

What Santa Venetia faces

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

Coastal flooding

42% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesIce stormsCold wavesDroughtAvalanches

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 Santa Venetia flood?

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

187paid claims since 1978

$1.4Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $15K
Winter storm: 1 claim, $4K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marin County.

Disasters that hit Santa Venetia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Santa VenetiaDeclared for Marin County only

Marin County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Santa Venetia

Santa Venetia and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Santa Venetiamostly coastal floodingVery high

San Rafaelmostly 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. Santa Venetia covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Santa Venetia’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Santa Venetia. 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 Santa Venetia total about $8.8M 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.