Natural hazards · Clearview

Clearview, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Clearview comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clearview?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clearview to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes57%Inland flooding36%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Clearview faces

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

Earthquakes

57% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Clearview flood?

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

5paid claims since 1979

$137Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Winter storm: 1 claim, $16K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Clearview 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 Clearview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClearviewDeclared for Snohomish County only

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

Around Clearview

Clearview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Maltbymostly earthquakesHigh

Clearviewmostly earthquakesModerate

Bothell Eastmostly earthquakesModerate

Cathcartmostly earthquakesModerate

Mill Creek Eastmostly 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. Clearview covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Clearview’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Clearview. 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 Clearview total about $2.9M 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.