Natural hazards · Northport

Northport, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Northport comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Northport?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Northport to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding70%Wildfire16%Cold waves9%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Northport faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Northport flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stevens County.

Disasters that hit Northport

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into NorthportDeclared for Stevens County only

2008

Severe Winter Storm and Record and Near Record Snow

$4K to the Town of Northport for repairs

Stevens County has had 20 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. Northport 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 Northport’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Northport. 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.