Natural hazards · Pronghorn

Pronghorn, OR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pronghorn comes from wildfires, 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 Pronghorn?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pronghorn to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire58%Inland flooding35%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Pronghorn faces

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

Wildfire

58% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Pronghorn flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Deschutes County.

Disasters that hit Pronghorn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PronghornDeclared for Deschutes County only

Deschutes County has had 18 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. Pronghorn covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pronghorn’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pronghorn. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Pronghorn total about $1.4M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.