Natural hazards · Orchards

Orchards, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Orchards comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Orchards?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Orchards to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding45%Earthquakes21%Cold waves20%Heat waves10%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Orchards faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Heat waves

10% 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 Orchards flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Orchards 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 Orchards

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OrchardsDeclared for Clark County only

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

Around Orchards

Orchards and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Five Cornersmostly inland floodingModerate

Vancouvermostly earthquakesLow

Hockinsonmostly inland floodingLow

Orchardsmostly 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. Orchards covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Orchards’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Orchards. 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 Orchards total about $5.3M 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.