Natural hazards · Tara Hills

Tara Hills, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tara Hills 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 Tara Hills?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes66%Inland flooding30%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Tara Hills faces

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

Earthquakes

66% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Tara Hills flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Tara Hills.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Contra Costa County.

Disasters that hit Tara Hills

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Contra Costa County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Tara Hills itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Tara HillsDeclared for Contra Costa County only

Contra Costa County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Tara Hills

Tara Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pinolemostly inland floodingVery high

Richmondmostly earthquakesVery high

Montalvin Manormostly earthquakesVery high

Bayviewmostly earthquakesVery high

Tara Hillsmostly 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. Tara Hills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tara Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Tara Hills. 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 Tara Hills 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.