Natural hazards · High Bridge

High Bridge, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in High Bridge comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2025.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is High Bridge?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in High Bridge to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes46%Inland flooding43%Everything else11%

By hazard

What High Bridge faces

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

Earthquakes

46% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 High Bridge flood?

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

1paid claims since 2025

$207Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20252026

Biggest named events

2025-12-AtmosphericRiver: 1 claim, $207K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. High Bridge 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 High Bridge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into High BridgeDeclared for Snohomish County only

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

Around High Bridge

High Bridge and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

High Bridgemostly earthquakesHigh

Maltbymostly earthquakesHigh

Cottage Lakemostly 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. High Bridge covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to High Bridge’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to High Bridge. 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 High Bridge total about $1.6M 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.