Natural hazards · Sky Valley

Sky Valley, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sky Valley comes from earthquakes, 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 Sky Valley?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sky Valley to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes70%Inland flooding29%

By hazard

What Sky Valley faces

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

Earthquakes

70% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sky Valley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Riverside County.

Disasters that hit Sky Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Sky ValleyDeclared for Riverside County only

Riverside County has had 61 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Sky Valley

Sky Valley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Thousand Palmsmostly earthquakesVery high

Sky Valleymostly 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. Sky Valley 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 Sky Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sky Valley. 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.