Natural hazards · Bunk Foss

Bunk Foss, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bunk Foss comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1990.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bunk Foss?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bunk Foss to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding48%Earthquakes41%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Bunk Foss faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

41% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Bunk Foss flood?

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

14paid claims since 1990

$242Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19902026

Biggest named events

Torrential rain: 3 claims, $39K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Snohomish County.

Disasters that hit Bunk Foss

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Bunk FossDeclared for Snohomish County only

Snohomish County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Bunk Foss

Bunk Foss and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cavaleromostly inland floodingHigh

Machiasmostly inland floodingHigh

Bunk Fossmostly inland floodingHigh

Fobes Hillmostly earthquakesHigh

Lake Stevensmostly 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. Bunk Foss covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bunk Foss’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bunk Foss. 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 Bunk Foss total about $3.4M 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.