Natural hazards · Napavine

Napavine, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Napavine comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Napavine?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Napavine to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes52%Inland flooding43%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Napavine 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

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Napavine flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lewis County.

Disasters that hit Napavine

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into NapavineDeclared for Lewis County only

2009

Severe Winter Storm, Landslides, Mudslides, and Flooding

$7K to the City of Napavine for repairs

2008

Severe Winter Storm and Record and Near Record Snow

$2K to the City of Napavine for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

4 households applied for aid $24K aid approved $13K to the City of Napavine for repairs

Lewis County has had 33 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. Napavine 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 Napavine’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Napavine. 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.