Natural hazards · Cascade Valley

Cascade Valley, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cascade Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cascade Valley?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cascade Valley to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding61%Cold waves18%Heat waves10%Earthquakes5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Cascade Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Cascade Valley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant County.

Disasters that hit Cascade Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Cascade ValleyDeclared for Grant County only

Grant County has had 10 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. Cascade Valley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cascade Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cascade Valley. 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 Cascade Valley total about $959K 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.