Natural hazards · Chenoweth

Chenoweth, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chenoweth comes from inland flooding, 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 Chenoweth?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chenoweth to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding58%Earthquakes24%Wildfire7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Chenoweth faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Earthquakes

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis

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 Chenoweth flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wasco County.

Disasters that hit Chenoweth

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChenowethDeclared for Wasco County only

Wasco County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Chenoweth covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Chenoweth’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Chenoweth. 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 Chenoweth total about $2.7M 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.