Natural hazards · Heceta Beach

Heceta Beach, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Heceta Beach 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 Heceta Beach?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes61%Inland flooding33%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Heceta Beach faces

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

Earthquakes

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningTsunamis

Not a risk here

HurricanesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Heceta Beach flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lane County.

Disasters that hit Heceta Beach

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Heceta BeachDeclared for Lane County only

Lane County has had 20 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. Heceta Beach 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 Heceta Beach’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Heceta Beach. 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.