Natural hazards · Spangle

Spangle, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Spangle comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Spangle?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Spangle to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding50%Avalanches32%Cold waves8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Spangle faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Avalanches

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Spangle flood?

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

8paid claims since 1979

$277Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19792026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Spokane County.

Disasters that hit Spangle

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SpangleDeclared for Spokane County only

Spokane County has had 26 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. Spangle 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 Spangle’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Spangle. 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.