Natural hazards · Potlatch

Potlatch, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Potlatch comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Potlatch?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Potlatch to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding65%Wildfire22%Cold waves7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Potlatch faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Potlatch flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Latah County.

Disasters that hit Potlatch

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PotlatchDeclared for Latah County only

Latah County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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