Natural hazards · Venersborg

Venersborg, WA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Venersborg?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Venersborg to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding61%Earthquakes15%Cold waves13%Heat waves6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Venersborg faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

15% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Venersborg flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clark County.

Disasters that hit Venersborg

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VenersborgDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Venersborg

Venersborg and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lewisvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Battle Groundmostly inland floodingModerate

Venersborgmostly inland floodingLow

Hockinsonmostly inland floodingLow

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