Natural hazards · Bingen

Bingen, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bingen comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bingen?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bingen to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire63%Inland flooding29%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Bingen faces

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

Wildfire

63% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% 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 Bingen flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Bingen 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 Bingen

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BingenDeclared for Klickitat County only

2024

Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$16K to the City of Bingen for repairs

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. Bingen 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 Bingen’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Bingen. 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.