Natural hazards · Summit View

Summit View, WA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Summit View?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Summit View to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes53%Inland flooding39%Heat waves6%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Summit View faces

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

Earthquakes

53% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Summit View flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pierce County.

Disasters that hit Summit View

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Summit ViewDeclared for Pierce County only

Pierce County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Summit View

Summit View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Clover Creekmostly earthquakesHigh

South Hillmostly earthquakesModerate

Summit Viewmostly earthquakesModerate

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. Summit View covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Summit View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Summit View. 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 Summit View total about $2.7M 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.