Natural hazards · Cashmere

Cashmere, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cashmere comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2009. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cashmere?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cashmere to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches56%Inland flooding36%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Cashmere faces

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

Avalanches

56% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Cashmere flood?

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

1paid claims since 2009

$8Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20092026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chelan County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Cashmere

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Cashmere itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Cashmere.

Brought FEMA money into CashmereDeclared for Chelan County only

2025

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid $11K aid approved $29K to the City of Cashmere for repairs

2006

Severe Winter Storm, Landslides, and Mudslides

$3K to the City of Cashmere for repairs

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$10K to the City of Cashmere for repairs

Chelan County has had 49 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Cashmere 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 Cashmere’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Cashmere. 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.