Natural hazards · Dash Point

Dash Point, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dash Point comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dash Point?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dash Point to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes54%Inland flooding20%Tsunamis19%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Dash Point faces

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

Earthquakes

54% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Tsunamis

19% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanches

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 Dash Point flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pierce County.

Disasters that hit Dash Point

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Dash PointDeclared for Pierce County only

Pierce County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Dash Point

Dash Point and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tacomamostly earthquakesHigh

Dash Pointmostly earthquakesModerate

Browns Pointmostly 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. Dash Point 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 Dash Point’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dash Point. 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.