Natural hazards · Lind

Lind, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lind comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lind?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lind to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding42%Cold waves25%Hail11%Wildfire11%Earthquakes5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Lind faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

25% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Wildfire

11% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong 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 Lind flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Adams County.

Disasters that hit Lind

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LindDeclared for Adams County only

Adams County has had 8 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. Lind 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 Lind’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lind. 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.