Natural hazards · Shingle Springs

Shingle Springs, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Shingle Springs comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Shingle Springs?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Shingle Springs to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire48%Inland flooding47%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Shingle Springs faces

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

Wildfire

48% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold 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 Shingle Springs flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: El Dorado County.

Disasters that hit Shingle Springs

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Shingle Springs itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Shingle Springs.

Brought FEMA money into Shingle SpringsDeclared for El Dorado County only

2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, and Landslides

3 households applied for aid

El Dorado County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Shingle Springs

Shingle Springs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Shingle Springsmostly wildfiresHigh

Cameron Parkmostly inland floodingHigh

Diamond Springsmostly wildfiresModerate

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. Shingle Springs covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Shingle Springs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Shingle Springs. 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 Shingle Springs total about $2.9M 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.