Natural hazards · Cavalero

Cavalero, WA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cavalero?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cavalero to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding55%Earthquakes33%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Cavalero faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% 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 Cavalero flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cavalero 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 Cavalero

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CavaleroDeclared for Snohomish County only

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

Around Cavalero

Cavalero and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cavaleromostly inland floodingHigh

Machiasmostly inland floodingHigh

Bunk Fossmostly inland floodingHigh

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