Natural hazards · Central Park

Central Park, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Central Park comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 23 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Central Park?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Central Park to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes55%Inland flooding24%Coastal flooding12%Tsunamis7%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Central Park faces

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

Earthquakes

55% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Coastal flooding

12% of expected damage

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

Tsunamis

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesAvalanchesVolcanic activity

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 Central Park flood?

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

23paid claims since 1981

$489Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Winter storm: 2 claims, $15K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grays Harbor County.

Disasters that hit Central Park

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Grays Harbor County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Central Park itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Central ParkDeclared for Grays Harbor County only

Grays Harbor County has had 30 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. Central Park covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Central Park’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Central Park. 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 Central Park total about $4.0M 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.