Natural hazards · Touchet

Touchet, WA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Touchet?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Touchet to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Earthquakes8%Heat waves6%Wildfire6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Touchet faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesLandslidesStrong 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 Touchet flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Walla Walla County.

Disasters that hit Touchet

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TouchetDeclared for Walla Walla County only

Walla Walla County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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. Touchet 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 Touchet’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Touchet. 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.