Natural hazards · Starbuck

Starbuck, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Starbuck comes from inland flooding, 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 Starbuck?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Starbuck to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Wildfire5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Starbuck faces

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

Inland flooding

83% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 Starbuck flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Columbia County.

Disasters that hit Starbuck

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into StarbuckDeclared for Columbia County only

2020

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$102K to the Town of Starbuck for repairs

Columbia County has had 14 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. Starbuck 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 Starbuck’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Starbuck. 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.