Natural hazards · McKenna

McKenna, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in McKenna comes from earthquakes, 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 McKenna?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McKenna to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes41%Inland flooding37%Cold waves17%Everything else5%

By hazard

What McKenna faces

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

Earthquakes

41% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 McKenna flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. McKenna 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.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

7flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

6flood-prone homes bought out and moved

1homes raised above flood level

Disasters that hit McKenna

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into McKennaDeclared for Pierce County only

Pierce County has had 22 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. McKenna 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 McKenna’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to McKenna. 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.