Natural hazards · Ocean Park

Ocean Park, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ocean Park comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2006. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ocean Park?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ocean Park to be higher than in 91% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes58%Inland flooding20%Tsunamis18%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Ocean Park faces

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

Earthquakes

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tsunamis

18% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

HurricanesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Ocean Park flood?

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

2paid claims since 2006

$21Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pacific County.

Disasters that hit Ocean Park

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Ocean ParkDeclared for Pacific County only

2025

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

4 households applied for aid $21K aid approved

2009

Severe Winter Storm, Landslides, Mudslides, and Flooding

4 households applied for aid $206 aid approved

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

142 households applied for aid $67K aid approved

Pacific County has had 24 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. Ocean Park covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ocean Park’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Ocean Park. 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 Ocean Park total about $1.6M 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.