Natural hazards · Longview Heights

Longview Heights, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Longview Heights 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 Longview Heights?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Longview Heights to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding54%Earthquakes30%Heat waves9%Cold waves6%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Longview Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Longview Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cowlitz County.

Disasters that hit Longview Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Longview HeightsDeclared for Cowlitz County only

Cowlitz County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Longview Heights

Longview Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Beacon Hillmostly inland floodingHigh

Longviewmostly earthquakesHigh

Longview Heightsmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Longview Heights 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 Longview Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Longview Heights. 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.