Natural hazards · Klickitat

Klickitat, WA natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Klickitat to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire47%Inland flooding40%Earthquakes5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Klickitat faces

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

Wildfire

47% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong 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 Klickitat flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Klickitat County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8homes raised above flood level

2flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Klickitat

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KlickitatDeclared for Klickitat County only

Klickitat County has had 27 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. Klickitat 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 Klickitat’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Klickitat. 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.