Natural hazards · Quincy

Quincy, WA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Quincy?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Quincy to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes47%Inland flooding32%Cold waves12%Heat waves7%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Quincy faces

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

Earthquakes

47% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Quincy flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant County.

Disasters that hit Quincy

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into QuincyDeclared for Grant County only

Grant County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Quincy covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Quincy’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Quincy. 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 Quincy total about $1.8M 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.