Natural hazards · Cedar Mill

Cedar Mill, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cedar Mill comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cedar Mill?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cedar Mill to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes57%Inland flooding31%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Cedar Mill 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 87% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% 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 Mill flood?

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

2paid claims since 2003

$13Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cedar Mill 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 Mill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Cedar MillDeclared for Washington County only

Washington County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Cedar Mill

Cedar Mill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Portlandmostly earthquakesHigh

Beavertonmostly earthquakesModerate

Oak Hillsmostly earthquakesModerate

Cedar Millmostly earthquakesLow

West Haven-Sylvanmostly earthquakesLow

Bethanymostly earthquakesLow

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 Mill covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cedar Mill’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cedar Mill. 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 Mill total about $7.0M 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.