Natural hazards · Summitview

Summitview, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Summitview comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2016.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Summitview?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Summitview to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding28%Wildfire28%Earthquakes22%Cold waves16%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Summitview faces

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

28% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

22% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Summitview flood?

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

1paid claims since 2016

$88Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20162026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yakima County.

Disasters that hit Summitview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SummitviewDeclared for Yakima County only

Yakima County has had 35 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Summitview

Summitview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Summitviewmostly inland floodingHigh

Yakimamostly inland floodingVery low

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. Summitview covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Summitview’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Summitview. 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 Summitview total about $1.3M 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.