Natural hazards · Santa Clara

Santa Clara, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Santa Clara comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Santa Clara?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Santa Clara to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding60%Earthquakes35%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Santa Clara faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

35% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Santa Clara flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lane County.

Disasters that hit Santa Clara

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Santa ClaraDeclared for Lane County only

Lane County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Santa Clara

Santa Clara and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

River Roadmostly inland floodingVery high

Santa Claramostly inland floodingHigh

Eugenemostly earthquakesHigh

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. Santa Clara covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Santa Clara’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Santa Clara. 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 Santa Clara total about $9.1M 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.