Natural hazards · Jamestown

Jamestown, WA natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jamestown to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes65%Inland flooding22%Coastal flooding8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Jamestown faces

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

Earthquakes

65% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Coastal flooding

8% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtTsunamis

Not a risk here

HurricanesAvalanchesVolcanic activity

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 Jamestown flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clallam County.

Disasters that hit Jamestown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JamestownDeclared for Clallam County only

Clallam County has had 26 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. Jamestown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Jamestown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Jamestown. 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 Jamestown total about $1.8M 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.