Natural hazards · Yacolt

Yacolt, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yacolt comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yacolt?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding73%Earthquakes10%Cold waves9%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Yacolt faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Yacolt flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Yacolt 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 Yacolt

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Yacolt itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Yacolt.

Brought FEMA money into YacoltDeclared for Clark County only

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

3 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

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

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