Natural hazards · Carson

Carson, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Carson comes from inland flooding, 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 Carson?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Carson to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding58%Cold waves29%Earthquakes7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Carson faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 100 years in the area

Cold waves

29% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Carson flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Skamania County.

Disasters that hit Carson

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CarsonDeclared for Skamania County only

Skamania County has had 27 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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