Natural hazards · Falcon Heights

Falcon Heights, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Falcon Heights 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 Falcon Heights?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Falcon Heights to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes57%Inland flooding33%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Falcon Heights 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 89% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years 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 Falcon Heights flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Klamath County.

Disasters that hit Falcon Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Falcon HeightsDeclared for Klamath County only

Klamath County has had 15 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. Falcon Heights 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 Falcon Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Falcon Heights. 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.