Natural hazards · Kahlotus

Kahlotus, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kahlotus comes from inland flooding, 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 Kahlotus?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kahlotus to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Wildfire15%Cold waves9%Heat waves7%Earthquakes5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Kahlotus faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Wildfire

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherLandslidesStrong 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 Kahlotus flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Franklin County.

Disasters that hit Kahlotus

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KahlotusDeclared for Franklin County only

Franklin County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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. Kahlotus 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 Kahlotus’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Kahlotus. 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.