Natural hazards · Queets

Queets, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Queets comes from tsunamis, and overall the risk is very 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 Queets?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Queets to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from tsunamis.

Tsunamis83%Earthquakes10%Inland flooding7%

By hazard

What Queets faces

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

Tsunamis

83% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

HurricanesVolcanic 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 Queets flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grays Harbor County.

Disasters that hit Queets

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into QueetsDeclared for Grays Harbor County only

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid

Grays Harbor County has had 30 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. Queets 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 Queets’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Queets. 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.