Natural hazards · Lookingglass

Lookingglass, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lookingglass 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 Lookingglass?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lookingglass to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes43%Inland flooding43%Avalanches10%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Lookingglass faces

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

Earthquakes

43% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Avalanches

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Lookingglass flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Lookingglass 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 Lookingglass

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LookingglassDeclared for Douglas County only

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