Natural hazards · Suncrest

Suncrest, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Suncrest comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Suncrest?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Suncrest to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Cold waves11%Wildfire6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Suncrest faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Suncrest flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stevens County.

Disasters that hit Suncrest

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SuncrestDeclared for Stevens County only

Stevens County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Suncrest 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 Suncrest’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Suncrest. 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.