Natural hazards · Kamiah

Kamiah, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kamiah comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high 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 Kamiah?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kamiah to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding63%Wildfire31%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Kamiah faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Wildfire

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Kamiah flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lewis County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1buildings floodproofed

Disasters that hit Kamiah

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KamiahDeclared for Lewis County only

2019

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$68K to the City of Kamiah for repairs

Lewis County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Kamiah 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 Kamiah’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Kamiah. 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.