Natural hazards · Metolius

Metolius, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Metolius comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Metolius?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Metolius to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding45%Wildfire25%Earthquakes11%Lightning6%Cold waves5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Metolius faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Wildfire

25% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Metolius flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Metolius

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MetoliusDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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