Natural hazards · Artondale

Artondale, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Artondale comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Artondale?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Artondale to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes61%Inland flooding32%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Artondale faces

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

Earthquakes

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanches

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 Artondale flood?

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

9paid claims since 1996

$275Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pierce County.

Disasters that hit Artondale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ArtondaleDeclared for Pierce County only

Pierce County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Artondale

Artondale and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rosedalemostly earthquakesHigh

Gig Harbormostly earthquakesHigh

Artondalemostly earthquakesHigh

Fox Islandmostly earthquakesHigh

Wollochetmostly earthquakesModerate

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. Artondale covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Artondale’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Artondale. 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 Artondale total about $6.1M 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.