Natural hazards · Clinton

Clinton, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Clinton comes from earthquakes, 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 Clinton?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clinton to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and landslides.

Earthquakes43%Landslides24%Inland flooding22%Coastal flooding5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Clinton faces

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

Earthquakes

43% of expected damage

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

Landslides

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Coastal flooding

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireStrong windLightningAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesDrought

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 Clinton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Island County.

Disasters that hit Clinton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClintonDeclared for Island County only

Island County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Clinton 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 Clinton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Clinton. 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.