Natural hazards · Cedar Hills

Cedar Hills, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cedar Hills comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cedar Hills?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes76%Inland flooding18%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Cedar Hills faces

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

Earthquakes

76% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% 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 Cedar Hills flood?

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

7paid claims since 1996

$32Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Washington County.

Disasters that hit Cedar Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Cedar HillsDeclared for Washington County only

Washington County has had 13 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. Cedar Hills covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cedar Hills’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cedar Hills. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Cedar Hills total about $6.4M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.