Natural hazards · Wheatland

Wheatland, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wheatland comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wheatland?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wheatland to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought44%Inland flooding40%Earthquakes13%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Wheatland faces

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

Drought

44% of expected damage

Recorded about 65 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Wheatland flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yuba County.

Disasters that hit Wheatland

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WheatlandDeclared for Yuba County only

2017

Wildfires

8 households applied for aid

2017

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

$3K to the City of Wheatland for repairs

Yuba County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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