Natural hazards · Wauna

Wauna, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wauna comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2007.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wauna?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wauna to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes66%Inland flooding27%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Wauna faces

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

Earthquakes

66% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanches

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 Wauna flood?

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

3paid claims since 2007

$13Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20072026

Biggest named events

Winter storm: 1 claim, $3K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Wauna 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 Wauna

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WaunaDeclared for Pierce County only

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

Around Wauna

Wauna and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Stansberry Lakemostly earthquakesVery high

Key Centermostly earthquakesVery high

Waunamostly earthquakesHigh

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. Wauna covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wauna’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wauna. 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 Wauna total about $1.9M 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.