Natural hazards · Skokomish

Skokomish, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Skokomish comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1994.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Skokomish?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes56%Inland flooding36%Coastal flooding6%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Skokomish faces

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

Earthquakes

56% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Coastal flooding

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesVolcanic 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 Skokomish flood?

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

14paid claims since 1994

$216Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19942026

Biggest named events

Winter storm: 5 claims, $86K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mason County.

Disasters that hit Skokomish

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SkokomishDeclared for Mason County only

Mason County has had 29 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. Skokomish covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Skokomish’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Skokomish. 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 Skokomish total about $437K 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.