Natural hazards · Creston

Creston, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Creston 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 Creston?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Creston to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire40%Inland flooding35%Cold waves16%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Creston faces

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

Wildfire

40% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Creston flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

Disasters that hit Creston

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrestonDeclared for Lincoln County only

Lincoln County has had 15 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. Creston 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 Creston’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Creston. 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.