Natural hazards · Long Beach

Long Beach, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Long Beach comes from tsunamis, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Long Beach?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Long Beach to be higher than in 94% of U.S. communities, mostly from tsunamis.

Tsunamis91%Earthquakes8%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Long Beach faces

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

Tsunamis

91% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

Inland floodingCoastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

HurricanesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Long Beach flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pacific County.

Disasters that hit Long Beach

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Long Beach itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Long Beach.

Brought FEMA money into Long BeachDeclared for Pacific County only

2025

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid

2024

Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$173K to the City of Long Beach for repairs

2021

Severe Winter Storms, Snowstorms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding

$169K to the City of Long Beach for repairs

2020

Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$138K to the City of Long Beach for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

83 households applied for aid $64K aid approved $23K to the City of Long Beach for repairs

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, Tidal Surge, Landslides, and Mudslides

$331K to the City of Long Beach for repairs

Pacific County has had 24 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. Long Beach covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Long Beach’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Long Beach. 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 Long Beach total about $22.3M 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.