Natural hazards · Verlot

Verlot, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Verlot comes from landslides, 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 Verlot?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Verlot to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from landslides and avalanches.

Landslides51%Avalanches22%Inland flooding21%Earthquakes5%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Verlot faces

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

Landslides

51% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Avalanches

22% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireStrong 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 Verlot flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Snohomish County.

Disasters that hit Verlot

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VerlotDeclared for Snohomish County only

Snohomish County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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