Natural hazards · Glasgow

Glasgow, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glasgow comes from earthquakes, 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 Glasgow?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glasgow to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes49%Inland flooding44%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Glasgow faces

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

Earthquakes

49% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesTsunamis

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesDroughtVolcanic activity

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 Glasgow flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Coos County.

Disasters that hit Glasgow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlasgowDeclared for Coos County only

Coos County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Glasgow 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 Glasgow’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glasgow. 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.