Natural hazards · Bickleton

Bickleton, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bickleton comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bickleton?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bickleton to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire69%Inland flooding23%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Bickleton faces

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

Wildfire

69% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Bickleton flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Klickitat County.

Disasters that hit Bickleton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BickletonDeclared for Klickitat County only

Klickitat County has had 27 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. Bickleton 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 Bickleton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bickleton. 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.