Natural hazards · Blyn

Blyn, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blyn comes from earthquakes, 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 Blyn?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blyn to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes65%Inland flooding26%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Blyn faces

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

Earthquakes

65% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningTsunamis

Not a risk here

HurricanesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Blyn flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clallam County.

Disasters that hit Blyn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BlynDeclared for Clallam County only

Clallam County has had 26 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Blyn 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 Blyn’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Blyn. 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.