Natural hazards · Tehaleh

Tehaleh, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tehaleh comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2025.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tehaleh?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tehaleh to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches80%Earthquakes9%Inland flooding6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Tehaleh faces

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

Avalanches

80% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamis

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 Tehaleh flood?

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

1paid claims since 2025

$31Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20252026

Biggest named events

2025-12-AtmosphericRiver: 1 claim, $31K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Tehaleh 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 Tehaleh

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TehalehDeclared for Pierce County only

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

Around Tehaleh

Tehaleh and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

McMillinmostly inland floodingVery high

Crockermostly avalanchesVery high

Ortingmostly inland floodingVery high

Tehalehmostly avalanchesHigh

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. Tehaleh covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tehaleh’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Tehaleh. 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 Tehaleh total about $21.6M 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.