Natural hazards · Strawberry

Strawberry, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Strawberry comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 20 claims here since 1978. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Strawberry?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Strawberry to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes44%Inland flooding44%Tsunamis7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Strawberry faces

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

Earthquakes

44% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tsunamis

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic 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 Strawberry flood?

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

20paid claims since 1978

$228Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 1 claim, $5K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Strawberry 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 Strawberry

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into StrawberryDeclared for Marin County only

2023

Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid

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

Around Strawberry

Strawberry and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Corte Maderamostly earthquakesVery high

Altomostly inland floodingVery high

Mill Valleymostly earthquakesVery high

Tamalpais-Homestead Valleymostly inland floodingVery high

Strawberrymostly earthquakesHigh

Tiburonmostly earthquakesHigh

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. Strawberry covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Strawberry’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Strawberry. 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 Strawberry total about $2.7M 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.