Natural hazards · Yarrow Point

Yarrow Point, WA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yarrow Point comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is 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 Yarrow Point?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yarrow Point to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes70%Inland flooding28%Everything else1%

By hazard

What Yarrow Point faces

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

Earthquakes

70% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Yarrow Point flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: King County.

Disasters that hit Yarrow Point

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Yarrow PointDeclared for King County only

2006

Severe Winter Storm, Landslides, and Mudslides

$6K to the Town of Yarrow Point for repairs

King County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Yarrow Point

Yarrow Point and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kirklandmostly earthquakesHigh

Yarrow Pointmostly earthquakesHigh

Hunts Pointmostly earthquakesHigh

Clyde Hillmostly 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. Yarrow Point covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Yarrow Point’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Yarrow Point. 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 Yarrow Point total about $4.7M 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.