Natural hazards · Woodcrest

Woodcrest, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Woodcrest comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2013.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Woodcrest?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Woodcrest to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding54%Wildfire23%Earthquakes22%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Woodcrest faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Wildfire

23% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Woodcrest flood?

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

1paid claims since 2013

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20132026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Riverside County.

Disasters that hit Woodcrest

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WoodcrestDeclared for Riverside County only

Riverside County has had 61 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Woodcrest

Woodcrest and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lake Mathewsmostly wildfiresVery high

Mead Valleymostly wildfiresVery high

Riversidemostly inland floodingVery high

Woodcrestmostly inland floodingVery high

March ARBmostly earthquakesVery high

El Sobrantemostly inland floodingVery 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. Woodcrest covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Woodcrest’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Woodcrest. 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 Woodcrest total about $10.9M 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.