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County hazard profile

Wahkiakum, WA

Washington · pop. 4,415 · FIPS 53069

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$6M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Wahkiakum $6M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexVery Low 19.27/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 60.81/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (61st percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 40.01/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (40th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Wahkiakum

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 93 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.8M in Wahkiakum since 1983. The costliest year was 2009 ($457K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1983: $0 paid 1990: $30,707 paid 1996: $270,223 paid 1998: $9,548 paid 1999: $69,846 paid 2001: $44,777 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $71,926 paid 2006: $424,605 paid 2007: $244,806 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $456,586 paid 2010: $5,627 paid 2012: $99,363 paid 2014: $9,072 paid 2015: $32,381 paid 2021: $9,563 paid 2009 · $457K 1983 2021
$1.8M
total paid
$19,129
average claim
$198K
largest single claim
82%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Wahkiakum, WA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Wahkiakum is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.