Natural hazards · Redwood

Redwood, OR natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Redwood to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding69%Earthquakes17%Heat waves10%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Redwood faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Redwood flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Josephine County.

Disasters that hit Redwood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RedwoodDeclared for Josephine County only

Josephine County has had 23 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. Redwood covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Redwood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Redwood. 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 Redwood total about $1.1M 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.