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Natural hazards · Methow

Methow, WA natural hazards

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

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

How exposed is Methow?

99
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Methow to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding44%Wildfire40%Avalanches12%Everything else4%
By hazard

What Methow faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

40% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Avalanches

12% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis
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 Methow flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Methow isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Okanogan County.
Disasters that hit Methow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MethowDeclared for Okanogan County only
Okanogan County has had 35 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Methow 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 Methow’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Methow. 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.

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