Natural hazards · Tulelake

Tulelake, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tulelake comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tulelake?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tulelake to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought51%Inland flooding23%Avalanches19%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Tulelake faces

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

Drought

51% of expected damage

Recorded about 74 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Avalanches

19% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsTsunamis

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 Tulelake flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Siskiyou County.

Disasters that hit Tulelake

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TulelakeDeclared for Siskiyou County only

Siskiyou County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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. Tulelake 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 Tulelake’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Tulelake. 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.