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California Disasters Since 1950 Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan Appendix F City of Newport Beach, California APPENDIX F: CALIFORNIA DISASTERS SINCE 1950 Disaster State # of # of Cost of Disaster Name # Year Counties and Cities Declared Declaration Deaths Injuries Damage Floods OCD 50- 1950 Statewide 11/21/50 9 $32,183,000 01 Fire, Flood, and DR-28 1954 Los Angeles, San Bernardino 2/5/54 Not Avail Erosion Floods DR-47 1955 Statewide 12/22/55 74 $200,000,000 Fires DR-65 1956 Los Angeles (Malibu area), Ventura 1 Several $70,000,000 hundred Unseasonal and 1957 Cherry producing areas of 5/20/57 2 $6,000,000 Heavy Rainfall Northern California Fires CDO 58- 1958 Los Angeles 1/3/58 1 23 Not available 01 High Tides CDO 58- 1958 City of Imperial Beach, San Diego 1/31/58 Not available 02 County Storm & Flood CDO 58- 1958 Northern California (Southern 2/26/58 Not available Damage 03 boundaries of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Alpine counties to the Oregon border) Storm & Flood N/A 1958 Statewide 4/2/58 13 $24,000,000 Damage Potential Flood CDO 59- 1959 Los Angeles 1/8/59 Not applicable Damage and 01 Landsides as a Result of Fires Unseasonal and N/A 1959 Tokay grape producing areas of 9/17/59 2 $100,000 Heavy Rainfall Northern California Major and N/A 1960 Los Angeles, San Bernardino 7/21-22/60 12 $10,000,000 Widespread Fires Major and N/A 1960 Lassen Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, 8/16/60 $3,075,000 Widespread Fires Tehama Bel Air Fires DR-119 1961 Los Angeles 103 Between $50,000,000 - $100,000,000 Widespread Fires N/A 1961 Amador, Butte, El Dorado, Napa, 9/8/61 $5,696,813 Nevada, Placer, San Diego, Sonoma, Tehama High Tides and N/A 1961 Ventura 1/16/61 Not available Waves Caused By Storms At Sea Flood and DR-122 1962 Los Angeles, Ventura 2/16/62 & Not available Rainstorm 2/23/62 Fires and N/A 1962 Alameda 9/14/62 1 12 $500,000 Explosions Flood and 1962 Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, 10/17/62, $4,000,000 Rainstorm Modoc, Napa San Mateo, Sierra, 10/25/62, Sutter, Yuba, Placer, Trinity, Lassen 10/30,62, & 11/4/62 Baldwin Hills Dam DR-161 1963 Los Angeles 12/16/63 $5,233,203 Failure High Tides and N/A 1963 Orange, City of Redondo Beach 5 $500,000 Heavy Surf Abnormally Heavy N/A 1963 Northern California (boundaries of 2/14/64 Not Available and Continuous San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Los Rainfall Angeles, and San Bernardino counties to the Oregon State Line Flood and Unknown 1963 Alpine, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, 2/7/63, Not available Rainstorm Sierra, Amador, Colusa, El Dorado, 2/26/63, Glenn, Lake, Lassen, Tehama, Santa 2/29/63, & Clara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Yolo, 4/22/63 Tulare, Mono, Trinity, Yuba Major Widespread N/A 1964 Los Angeles 3/16/64 $2,000,000 Fires (Weldon Fire) 2014 Page F - 1 Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan Appendix F City of Newport Beach, California Disaster State # of # of Cost of Disaster Name # Year Counties and Cities Declared Declaration Deaths Injuries Damage Major and N/A 1964 Napa, Sonoma, Santa Barbara 9/22/64, $16,500,000 Widespread Fires 9/23/64, & and Excessively 9/25/64 High Winds Storms N/A 1964 Los Angeles 4/3/64 1,610,300 Abnormally Heavy N/A 1964 Humboldt 2/10/64 $1,407,000 and Continuous Rainfall Tsunami Caused by N/A 1964 Marin 9/15/64 Not applicable 1964 Earthquake in Alaska 1964 Late Winter Unknown 1964 Del Norte, Humboldt, Shasta, 12/22/64, $213,149,000 Storms Mendocino, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, 12/23/64, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sonoma, 12/28/64, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Amador, 1/5/65, & Butte, El Dorado, Modoc, Nevada, 1/1/65 Placer, Yuba, Alpine, Lake, Sacramento, Yolo, Marin Tsunami Caused by Unknown 1964 Del Norte 3/28/64 12 $10,000,000 Alaska Earthquake Riots N/A 1965 Los Angeles 8/14/65 32 874 $44,991,000 Major and N/A 1965 Marin, Napa, Placer, Solano, 9/18/65 Not available Widespread Fires Sonoma Flooding and Hill N/A 1965 City of Burbank, Los Angeles 1/5/65 Not Available Slides Caused by Heavy Rains Slide Damage N/A 1965 City of Los Angeles 6/21/65 $6,488,600 1965 Heavy Rainfall 1965 Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, 11/24/65, $21,843,739 San Diego 11/26/65, 12/23/65 Continuous Rainfall DR-211 1966 Humboldt 1/14/66 $6,918,000.00 Riots N/A 1966 San Francisco 9/27/66 42 Not available Earth slides N/A 1966 Redwood City 12/16/66 $100,000 1966 Winter Unknown 1966 Kern, Riverside, Tulare, San 12/9/66, $28,761,041.00 Storms Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, 12/13/66, Monterey, City of Escondido, Inyo 12/16/66, 12/16/66, & 12/23/66 Major and N/A 1967 Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, 1/7/67 $11,345,000 Widespread Fires Ventura Riots and Other N/A 1968 City of Richmond 8/2/68 Not applicable Conditions Riots N/A 1969 City of Berkeley 2/5/69 0 20 Not available Extremely Severe N/A 1969 San Diego 2/5/69 $10,000,000 Weather; Freezing Major Oil Spill N/A 1969 Coastal Areas of Southern Not available California 1969 Storms Unknown 1969 Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, 1/23/69, 47 161 $300,000,000 Fresno, Inyo, Riverside, San 1/25,69, Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Tulare, 1/28/69, Ventura, Amador, El Dorado, Kern, 1/29/69, Kings, Madera, Modoc, Mono, 2/8/69, Monterey, Orange, Placer, 2/10/69, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, 2/16/69, Solano, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, 3/12/69 Mariposa, Merced, Calaveras, San Benito, Sierra, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Plumas, Tehama, Yuba, Butte, Marin, Yolo Heavy Snow 1969 Kings 1/28/96 $2,812,500.00 Runoff Riots and N/A 1970 Santa Barbara 2/26/70 12+ $300,000 Disorders Large Fire N/A 1970 City of Sonora, Tuolumne 2/26/70 $2,300,000 Widespread Fires N/A 1970 Riverside 12/22/70 $3,200,000 2014 Page F - 2 Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan Appendix F City of Newport Beach, California Disaster State # of # of Cost of Disaster Name # Year Counties and Cities Declared Declaration Deaths Injuries Damage Storms and Floods N/A 1970 Contra Costa 4/10/70 Not available Freezing N/A 1970 Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, San 5/1/70, $19,749,200 Conditions Joaquin, Lake 5/19/70, 6/8/70, 6/10/70, 7/24/70 Slide Damage N/A 1970 City of Oakland 2/10/70 $11,500,000 Caused by Heavy Rains and Storms Slide Damage N/A 1970 City of Los Angeles 3/10/70 $8,500,000 Caused by Heavy Rains and Storms Northern Unknown 1970 Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Lassen, 1/26/60, $27,657,478 California Flooding Marin, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, 2/3/60, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity, Sutter, 2/10/60, Yuba, Del Norte, Alameda, El 3/2/60 Dorado, Mendocino Statewide Fires 1970 City of Oakland, Los Angeles, 9/24/70, 19 $223,611,000 Ventura, San Diego, Kern, San 9/28/70, Bernardino, Monterey, Riverside 10/1/70, 10/2/70, 10/20/70, 11/14/70 San Fernando DR-299 1971 Los Angeles 2/9/71 58 2,000 $483,957,000 Earthquake Widespread Fires N/A 1971 Santa Barbara 10/13/71 4 $9,000,000 High Ocean Tides N/A 1971 Ventura 5/19/71 $250,000 and Wind-driven Waves 1972 Storms DR-316 1972 Santa Barbara 1/3/72 $2,660,000 Andrus island DR-342 1972 Sacramento 6/21/72 $23,681,630 Levee Break Exotic Newcastle N/A 1972 Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San 4/10/72, $10,000,000 Disease Epidemic Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura, 5/22/72 Santa Barbara Drought N/A 1972 Glenn, San Benito, Santa Clara 7//73 $8,000,000 Conditions Heavy Rains and N/A 1972 Monterey 10/24/72 $720,000 Mud Slides Severe Weather N/A 1972 Sutter 9/3/72 $2,004,300 Conditions Freeze and Severe N/A 1972 Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Merced, 4/17/72, $111,517,260 Weather Kern, Madera, San Benito, 5/22/72, Conditions Stanislaus, El Dorado, Tehama, 5/22/72, Placer, Nevada, San Joaquin, Colusa, 5/31/72 Siskiyou, Modoc, Santa Clara 1972 Continuing 1972 Del Norte, Humboldt 2/28/72 $6,817,618 Storms Coastal Flooding DR-364 1973 Marin, San Luis Obispo, City of 1/23/73, $17,998,250 South San Francisco, Santa Barbara, 1/30/73, Solano, Ventura 2/8/73, 2/28/73 Southern Pacific N/A 1973 Sacramento, placer 4/30/73 0 37 $2,925,000 Railroad Fires and Explosions (Roseville) Boulder Fire N/A 1973 San Diego 12/12/73 0 $215,700 High Ocean Tides N/A 1973 Ventura 2/1/73 $1,027,000 and Wind-driven Waves Storms and Floods N/A 1973 Colusa, Glenn, Napa, Placer, Sutter, 2/28/73 $1,864,000 Yuba Storms and Floods N/A 1973 Mendocino 3/15/73 $1,523,200 Storms and Floods N/A 1973 City of Pacifica 4/11/73 $700,000 Freeze N/A 1973 Butte 2/28/73 $300,000 Eucalyptus Tree Unknown 1973 Alameda, Contra Costa 4/4/73 $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 2014 Page F - 3 Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan Appendix F City of Newport Beach, California Disaster State # of # of Cost of Disaster Name # Year Counties and Cities Declared Declaration Deaths Injuries Damage Freeze Fires N/A 1973 Los Angeles 7/16/73 $1,300,000 Storms DR-412 1974 Humboldt, Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, 1/17/74, $35,192,500 Glenn, Mendocino, Tehama 1/18/74 Storms DR-432 1974 Mendocino 4/23/74 $4,475,900 Gasoline N/A 1974 Alameda, Contra Costa, Los 2/28/74, Purchasing Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San 3/4/74, Problems Mateo, Solano, Santa Clara, Ventura 3/10/74 Storms N/A 1974 Santa Cruz 2/28/74 $763,267 Fires N/A 1975 Los Angeles 11/24/75 $19,486,960 Drought N/A 1976 Alpine, Calaveras, Colusa, Fresno, 2/9/76, $2,664,000,000 Glenn, Madera, Merced, San Diego, 2/13,76, San Joaquin, Solano, Stanislaus, 2/24/76, Sutter, Tuolumne, Alameda, Butte, 3/26/76, Contra Costa, Kings, Los Angeles, 7/6/76 Riverside, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, Yolo, Amador, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, San Benito, San Bernardino, Tehama, San Mateo, Marin 1976 High Winds DR-521 1976 Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, 9/13/76, $120,132,771 and Flooding San Diego 9/22/76 Sycamore Fire N/A 1977 Santa Barbara 7/27/77 0 $25,540,755 Imperial County N/A 1977 Imperial 8/23/77 $28,498,469 Flooding Threat of N/A 1977 Monterey, Riverside 9/8/77 $6,110,000 Floods/Mud Slides
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