Levees / California / 5205000441

MA 09 - City of Sacramento - American R left bank

Sacramento, Sacramento County, California. On the American River, Sacramento River. USACE records 384,056 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
384,056
USACE figure
Structures
87,713
in the leveed area
Levee length
35.4
miles, plus 0.97 of floodwall
Leveed area
133.70
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5205000441
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Very High
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
07/12/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
American River Flood Control District, CA Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, City of Sacramento, Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, Sacramento Maintenance Yard - DWR
Waterway
American River, Sacramento River
Segments
7
USACE district
Sacramento
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
06, 07, 09
Consequence estimate
$6.77 billion
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.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 5205000441. 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.