Natural hazards · Oroville

Oroville, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Oroville comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1982.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Oroville?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Oroville to be higher than in 91% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and wildfires.

Avalanches36%Wildfire30%Inland flooding26%Cold waves6%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Oroville faces

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

Avalanches

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Wildfire

30% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis

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 Oroville flood?

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

6paid claims since 1982

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Okanogan County.

Disasters that hit Oroville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OrovilleDeclared for Okanogan County only

Okanogan County has had 35 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. Oroville 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 Oroville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Oroville. 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.