Natural hazards · Yankee Hill

Yankee Hill, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yankee Hill comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very 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 Yankee Hill?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding41%Wildfire39%Landslides11%Earthquakes7%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Yankee Hill faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

39% of expected damage

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

Landslides

11% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsCold wavesTsunamis

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 Yankee Hill flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butte County.

Disasters that hit Yankee Hill

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Yankee Hill itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Yankee Hill.

Brought FEMA money into Yankee HillDeclared for Butte County only

2020

Wildfires

11 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

2018

Wildfires

64 households applied for aid $316K aid approved

Butte County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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. Yankee Hill 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 Yankee Hill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Yankee Hill. 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.

Yankee Hill, CA natural hazards

How exposed is Yankee Hill?

What Yankee Hill faces

Inland flooding

Wildfire

Landslides

Earthquakes

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Yankee Hill flood?

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Wildfires

Wildfires

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