Natural hazards · Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sleepy Hollow comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 64 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sleepy Hollow?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sleepy Hollow to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding63%Earthquakes34%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Sleepy Hollow faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

34% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Sleepy Hollow flood?

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

64paid claims since 1980

$1.8Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $16K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Sleepy Hollow 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 Sleepy Hollow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Sleepy HollowDeclared for Marin County only

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

Around Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

San Anselmomostly inland floodingVery high

San Rafaelmostly earthquakesVery high

Sleepy Hollowmostly inland floodingVery high

Fairfaxmostly inland floodingVery 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. Sleepy Hollow covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sleepy Hollow’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sleepy Hollow. 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 Sleepy Hollow total about $6.2M 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.