Natural hazards · Cathcart

Cathcart, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cathcart comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cathcart?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cathcart to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes61%Inland flooding31%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Cathcart faces

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

Earthquakes

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

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 Cathcart flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cathcart 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 Cathcart

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CathcartDeclared for Snohomish County only

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

Around Cathcart

Cathcart and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Maltbymostly earthquakesHigh

Clearviewmostly earthquakesModerate

Cathcartmostly earthquakesModerate

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