Natural hazards · Orofino

Orofino, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Orofino comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Orofino?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Orofino to be higher than in 96% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding64%Wildfire25%Avalanches9%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Orofino faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Wildfire

25% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Avalanches

9% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Orofino flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Orofino, from FEMA’s records.

2paid claims since 1996

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clearwater County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Orofino

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OrofinoDeclared for Clearwater County only

Clearwater County has had 13 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. Orofino 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 Orofino’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Orofino. 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.