Natural hazards · Quilcene

Quilcene, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Quilcene comes from earthquakes, 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 Quilcene?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Quilcene to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes49%Inland flooding45%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Quilcene faces

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

Earthquakes

49% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesTsunamis

Not a risk here

HurricanesDroughtVolcanic 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 Quilcene flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone homes bought out and moved

Disasters that hit Quilcene

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into QuilceneDeclared for Jefferson County only

2003

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

Jefferson County has had 26 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Quilcene 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 Quilcene’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Quilcene. 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.