Natural hazards · Halfway

Halfway, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Halfway comes from avalanches, 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 Halfway?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Halfway to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches39%Inland flooding30%Wildfire26%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Halfway faces

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

Avalanches

39% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

26% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Halfway flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Baker County.

Disasters that hit Halfway

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HalfwayDeclared for Baker County only

Baker County has had 10 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. Halfway 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 Halfway’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Halfway. 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.