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Natural hazards · Cliffdell

Cliffdell, WA natural hazards

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

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

How exposed is Cliffdell?

100
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cliffdell to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and avalanches.

Wildfire43%Avalanches31%Inland flooding18%Everything else8%
By hazard

What Cliffdell faces

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

Wildfire

43% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Avalanches

31% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Cliffdell flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Cliffdell isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Yakima County.
Disasters that hit Cliffdell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CliffdellDeclared for Yakima County only
Yakima County has had 35 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.
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. Cliffdell 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 Cliffdell’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cliffdell. 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.

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