Natural hazards · Hines

Hines, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hines comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate 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 Hines?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hines to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding64%Wildfire25%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Hines faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

25% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Hines flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Harney County.

Disasters that hit Hines

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into HinesDeclared for Harney County only

2003

Severe Winter Storms

$2K to the City of Hines for repairs

Harney County has had 6 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. Hines 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 Hines’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Hines. 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.