Natural hazards · Butteville

Butteville, OR natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Butteville?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Butteville to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes69%Inland flooding26%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Butteville faces

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

Earthquakes

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Butteville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marion County.

Disasters that hit Butteville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ButtevilleDeclared for Marion County only

Marion County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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