Natural hazards · Barlow

Barlow, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Barlow comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Barlow?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barlow to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes57%Inland flooding36%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Barlow faces

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

Earthquakes

57% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Barlow flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clackamas County.

Disasters that hit Barlow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BarlowDeclared for Clackamas County only

Clackamas County has had 18 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. Barlow 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 Barlow’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Barlow. 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.