Natural hazards · Glide

Glide, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glide comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glide?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glide to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding73%Avalanches12%Earthquakes8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Glide faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Avalanches

12% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamis

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 Glide flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

Disasters that hit Glide

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Glide itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Glide.

Brought FEMA money into GlideDeclared for Douglas County only

2020

Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds

210 households applied for aid $111K aid approved

Douglas County has had 23 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. Glide 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 Glide’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glide. 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.