Natural hazards · Moclips

Moclips, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Moclips comes from tsunamis, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Moclips?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Moclips to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from tsunamis and earthquakes.

Tsunamis68%Earthquakes22%Inland flooding9%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Moclips faces

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

Tsunamis

68% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesAvalanchesVolcanic activity

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 Moclips flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grays Harbor County.

Disasters that hit Moclips

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Moclips itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Moclips.

Brought FEMA money into MoclipsDeclared for Grays Harbor County only

2025

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

1 household applied for aid

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

17 households applied for aid $26K aid approved

Grays Harbor County has had 30 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. Moclips 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 Moclips’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Moclips. 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.