Natural hazards · Yettem

Yettem, CA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yettem comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yettem?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yettem to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding46%Heat waves31%Earthquakes15%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Yettem faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

31% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Yettem flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tulare County.

Disasters that hit Yettem

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into YettemDeclared for Tulare County only

2023

Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

3 households applied for aid $300 aid approved

Tulare County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Yettem 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 Yettem’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Yettem. 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.