Natural hazards · Maplewood

Maplewood, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maplewood comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Maplewood?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maplewood to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes52%Inland flooding36%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Maplewood faces

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

Earthquakes

52% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanches

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 Maplewood flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Maplewood, from FEMA’s records.

9paid claims since 1981

$305Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pierce County.

Disasters that hit Maplewood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaplewoodDeclared for Pierce County only

Pierce County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Maplewood

Maplewood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Purdymostly earthquakesHigh

Gig Harbormostly earthquakesHigh

Maplewoodmostly earthquakesHigh

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. Maplewood covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Maplewood’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Maplewood. 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 Maplewood total about $1.5M 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.