Natural hazards · Browns Point

Browns Point, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Browns Point comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 17 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Browns Point?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Browns Point to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes54%Inland flooding20%Tsunamis19%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Browns Point faces

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

Earthquakes

54% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Tsunamis

19% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic 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 Browns Point flood?

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

17paid claims since 1983

$437Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Browns Point 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 Browns Point

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Browns PointDeclared for Pierce County only

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

Around Browns Point

Browns Point and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tacomamostly earthquakesHigh

Browns Pointmostly earthquakesModerate

Dash Pointmostly 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. Browns Point covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Browns Point’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Browns Point. 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 Browns Point total about $1.6M 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.