Lake Roesiger’s biggest natural hazard is landslides
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lake Roesiger comes from landslides, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.
What stands out about Lake Roesiger’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
What Lake Roesiger faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Landslides
Avalanches
Inland flooding
Earthquakes
Does Lake Roesiger flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Lake Roesiger. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Lake Roesiger 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.How exposed is Lake Roesiger?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from landslides and avalanches.
Rated higher than 532 of the 639 Washington towns we cover.
Lake Roesiger is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.
Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Snohomish County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Lake Roesiger itself in FEMA’s records.
Snohomish County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Get ready for what Lake Roesiger actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Watch for new cracks, tilting trees or suddenly muddy streams after heavy rain.
- Stay off steep slopes in a downpour.
- Leave if you hear rumbling upslope.
- Check the avalanche forecast before heading into the backcountry.
- Carry a beacon, probe and shovel, and know how to use them.
- Most avalanches are set off by the people caught in them.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Most disasters here begin in November–January
The month each of Snohomish County’s 33 declared disasters began, since 1953.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Lake Roesiger’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lake Roesiger.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Lake Roesiger.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.