Natural hazards · Mount Angel

Mount Angel, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Angel comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2010. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Angel?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes71%Inland flooding24%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Mount Angel faces

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

Earthquakes

71% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Mount Angel flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Mount Angel, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 2010

$14Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20102026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marion County.

Disasters that hit Mount Angel

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount AngelDeclared for Marion County only

2021

Severe Winter Storm

$56K to the City of Mount Angel for repairs

2020

Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds

12 households applied for aid $159 aid approved $9K to the City of Mount Angel for repairs

Marion County has had 12 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. Mount Angel 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 Mount Angel’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Mount Angel. 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.