Natural hazards · Wollochet

Wollochet, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wollochet comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2022.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wollochet?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wollochet to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes73%Inland flooding21%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Wollochet faces

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

Earthquakes

73% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% 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 Wollochet flood?

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

5paid claims since 2022

$595Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Wollochet 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 Wollochet

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WollochetDeclared for Pierce County only

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

Around Wollochet

Wollochet and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Gig Harbormostly earthquakesHigh

Artondalemostly earthquakesHigh

Wollochetmostly earthquakesModerate

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. Wollochet covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wollochet’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wollochet. 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 Wollochet total about $5.5M 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.