Natural hazards · Pierce

Pierce, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pierce comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2009.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pierce?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pierce to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire45%Inland flooding37%Avalanches11%Landslides5%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Pierce faces

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

Wildfire

45% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Avalanches

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Landslides

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesStrong 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 Pierce flood?

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

1paid claims since 2009

$27Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20092026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pierce 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.

Disasters that hit Pierce

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PierceDeclared 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. Pierce 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 Pierce’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pierce. 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.

Pierce, ID natural hazards

How exposed is Pierce?

What Pierce faces

Wildfire

Inland flooding

Avalanches

Landslides

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Pierce flood?

Federal disasters declared here

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