Natural hazards · Weedpatch

Weedpatch, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Weedpatch comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1995.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Weedpatch?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Weedpatch to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes64%Inland flooding24%Heat waves12%

By hazard

What Weedpatch faces

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

Earthquakes

64% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWildfireStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Weedpatch flood?

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

7paid claims since 1995

$15Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19952026

Biggest named events

Pineapple Express - Southern: 5 claims, $12K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kern County.

Disasters that hit Weedpatch

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WeedpatchDeclared for Kern County only

Kern County has had 37 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. Weedpatch covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Weedpatch’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Weedpatch. 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 Weedpatch total about $1.2M 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.