Natural hazards · Mount Vista

Mount Vista, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Vista comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1995.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Vista?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Vista to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding46%Earthquakes31%Cold waves13%Heat waves6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Mount Vista faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year 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 Mount Vista flood?

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

5paid claims since 1995

$60Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19952026

Biggest named events

Torrential rain: 1 claim, $16K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clark County.

Disasters that hit Mount Vista

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount VistaDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Mount Vista

Mount Vista and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Salmon Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Barbertonmostly inland floodingModerate

Mount Vistamostly inland floodingLow

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. Mount Vista covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mount Vista’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mount Vista. 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 Mount Vista total about $3.2M 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.