Natural hazards · Pomeroy

Pomeroy, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pomeroy comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pomeroy?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pomeroy to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Wildfire10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Pomeroy faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Pomeroy flood?

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

1paid claims since 1979

$95paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Garfield County.

Disasters that hit Pomeroy

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PomeroyDeclared for Garfield County only

Garfield County has had 13 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. Pomeroy 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 Pomeroy’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pomeroy. 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.