Natural hazards · Irrigon

Irrigon, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Irrigon comes from inland flooding, 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 Irrigon?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Irrigon to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding62%Ice storms15%Cold waves6%Earthquakes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Irrigon faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Ice storms

15% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Irrigon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Morrow County.

Disasters that hit Irrigon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into IrrigonDeclared for Morrow County only

Morrow County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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. Irrigon 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 Irrigon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Irrigon. 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.