Natural hazards · Four Corners

Four Corners, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Four Corners 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 Four Corners?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Four Corners to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes69%Inland flooding22%Heat waves6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Four Corners 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

22% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Four Corners flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Four Corners 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 Four Corners

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Four CornersDeclared for Marion County only

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

Around Four Corners

Four Corners and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Four Cornersmostly earthquakesHigh

Salemmostly earthquakesModerate

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. Four Corners covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Four Corners’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Four Corners. 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 Four Corners total about $2.3M 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.