Levees / California / 3805010020

Coyote Creek/Carbon Creek 1

Cypress, Orange County, California. On the Coyote Creek. USACE records 3,979 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
3,979
USACE figure
Structures
2,676
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.8
miles
Leveed area
4.22
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
3805010020
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
07/25/2017
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, Orange County Flood Control District
Waterway
Coyote Creek
Segments
2
USACE district
Los Angeles
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
42, 45, 47
Consequence estimate
$327.1 million
Flood of record
Not published

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

02

Where it is

California
All levee systems in this state
Orange County, CA
All levee systems in this county

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 3805010020. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.