FEMA Records
19
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Oregon · FEMA + NOAA + National Risk Index
Clatsop County, OR
19 FEMA disaster declarations (1965-2026), with a FEMA National Risk Index rating of Relatively High. Most common hazard: Severe Storm.
- 19
- FEMA declarations
- 17
- Major disasters
- 95
- NRI risk · Relatively High
- Severe Storm
- Top hazard
The verdict
Two federal records point in the busier direction for Clatsop County. Its 19 FEMA declarations are 14% above the Oregon county mean and exceed the count for 41% of the 3,266 counties in this registry. Separately, FEMA's National Risk Index places it in the riskiest 5%, based on modeled expected annual loss, social vulnerability, and community resilience.
- Riskiest 5%
- of U.S. counties for FEMA National Risk Index score
- Relatively High
- FEMA National Risk Index rating
- 19
- FEMA declarations vs 21 national county avg
- 160
- NFIP flood insurance claims filed
FEMA's National Risk Index and its declaration registry are separate measures. This county's registry includes Major Disaster (DR) and Emergency (EM) records; an EM authorizes a narrower set of federal assistance than a DR.
FEMA OpenFEMA declaration desk
County FIPS 41007 · Clatsop County 19 declarations · rank 1806/3,266
DECL-MID · MAJOR-HEAVY · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · NRI-HIGH · ACT-HIGH · TYPE-LEAD · VS-ST-ABOVE
- DECL-MID 19
- MAJOR-HEAVY 89%
- RANK-LOWER #1,806
- PHOTO-FINISH Bartow
- NRI-HIGH 95
- ACT-HIGH High
- TYPE-LEAD Severe Storm
- VS-ST-ABOVE +14%
Nearest declaration peer: Bartow, GA (0 declaration gap)
FEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 filing stamps for this county register. Read with this county → · Oregon state profile
Clatsop County in the declaration-count neighbourhood
FEMA declaration records among Clatsop County and nearest peers by total count
- Los Angeles · largest
Los Angeles · largest
88 declarations
- Bartow · near 19
Bartow · near
19 declarations
- Clatsop · this county 19
Clatsop · this county
19 declarations
- Union · near 19
Union · near
19 declarations
- Warren · near 19
Warren · near
19 declarations
- Ujelang · smallest 1
Ujelang · smallest
1 declarations
What this shows Clatsop County carries 19 FEMA declaration records, ranked 1806 of 3,266 counties in this registry.
How Clatsop County's FEMA declaration count compares nationally
Clatsop County vs. all counties in this dataset
FEMA disaster declarations, all-time · Clatsop County
19 41st percentile higher than 41% of 3,266 counties
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more counties. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source FEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 · 2026-08-25
Clatsop County's FEMA Risk Index score
What does Clatsop County's hazard record show?
Reading the federal records together
The NFIP claims register shows a middle-volume loss record here: 160 paid claims, totaling $2.0M. PlainHazard uses 50-499 claims for this descriptive band; FEMA does not publish it as a safety or coverage category. The $12.6K average describes payments on recorded claims only, leaving uninsured damage and properties without a claim outside the measure.
The declaration register points in the busier direction. Clatsop County's 19 federal records stand 14% above the Oregon county mean of 16.6. That comparison describes how often federal action was recorded, including any Major Disaster, Emergency, and Fire Management entries shown on this page; it does not convert the count into future probability.
FEMA National Risk Index
This county sits among the highest-risk counties nationally on FEMA's National Risk Index, a composite score of 95.1/100 (Relatively High). Expected Annual Loss is rated Relatively Moderate (roughly $145.1M in annualized losses). Social vulnerability reads Relatively High and community resilience Relatively High, both critical modifiers of realized harm here. Of the 18 hazards FEMA models, Tsunami stands out as the sharpest exposure here, rated Very High. FEMA's modeled frequency puts that hazard at roughly once every 7 years here, based on 32 historical events on record.
63 /100
Historical Activity Index
High historical activity
Clatsop County, OR · PlainHazard-derived composite from federal records
This 0–100 index is an explicit PlainHazard composite from FEMA declaration history only on the county surface (this DB has no county-level NOAA damage row) . It is not FEMA's National Risk Index, not a forecast, and not a safety, insurance, or preparedness rating. Open the calculator · Methodology
FEMA Declarations (1953–present) Moderate
14/30
19 OpenFEMA declarations, full ingest window (0.9x national county average)
County Disaster Density High
14/25
19 declarations (1.1x state county average of 17)
Major Disaster Share Very High
22/25
17 of 19 declarations are major disasters (89%)
Hazard Diversity High
13/20
5 different disaster types declared in Clatsop County
FEMA NRI 8-hazard radar - Clatsop County
How to read this radar
Each axis: NRI risk rating (Very Low-Very High) on a 0-100 scale. Rounder = broad exposure; spiky = one or two hazards dominate.
Major Disaster share
89%
Mostly major
NRI risk score
95
Relatively High
Source: FEMA National Risk Index Per-county per-hazard ratings, December 2025 release
How often does each hazard strike Clatsop County?
FEMA's National Risk Index models a historical event count and an annualized frequency for each hazard type. Most hazards are expressed as modeled occurrences per year; FEMA expresses drought and heat-wave frequency as event-days per year. These modeled frequencies are not forecasts.
| Hazard | NRI Risk Rating | Recurrence |
|---|---|---|
| Tsunami | Very High | roughly once every 7 years |
| Earthquake | Relatively Moderate | roughly once every 52 years |
| Coastal Flooding | Very High | an average of 4.4 times per year |
| Landslide | Relatively Moderate | an average of 3.8 times per year |
| Volcanic Activity | Very Low | roughly once every 99 years |
| Riverine Flooding | Relatively Low | roughly once every 5 years |
| Wildfire | Very Low | roughly once every 41,223 years |
| Heat Wave | Relatively Low | 3.4 modeled event-days per year |
| Ice Storm | Relatively Low | roughly once every 1 years |
| Strong Wind | Relatively Low | roughly once every 27 years |
| Cold Wave | Very Low | roughly once every 8 years |
| Avalanche | Very Low | roughly once every 100 years |
| Lightning | Very Low | an average of 5.2 times per year |
| Winter Weather | Very Low | an average of 12 times per year |
| Drought | Very Low | 0.4 modeled event-days per year |
| Tornado | Very Low | roughly once every 13 years |
| Hail | Very Low | roughly once every 31 years |
Source: FEMA National Risk Index Modeled annualized frequency; drought and heat wave use event-days/year, December 2025 release
Disaster Types
Severe Storm 10
Flood 5
Biological 2
Coastal Storm 1
Fishing Losses 1
What Severe Storm declarations mean here
Severe Storm is the most frequent declaration type on Clatsop County's record, 53% of its declarations. In FEMA's vocabulary this covers convective weather: thunderstorm straight-line winds, large hail, and the multi-day outbreaks that often carry embedded tornadoes. Activity is heaviest in spring and summer, though the season varies by region.
These events behave differently from a hurricane on paper. Damage tends to be distributed along a storm track rather than concentrated on a coastline, and a declaration typically follows an outbreak that crossed several counties over a few days, not a single point of impact. Because the qualifying threshold is the cost of uninsured public and individual losses rather than storm intensity, two similar storms can produce a declaration in one year and none in another.
Declaration counts describe past federal action. They are a record of what was declared, not a forecast of future hazard probability.
Declaration Types
What DR / EM / FM mean
FEMA categorizes declarations as Major Disasters (DR), Emergencies (EM), or Fire Management Assistance (FM).
Major Disaster - 17 89.5%
of all 19 declarations
Emergency - 2 10.5%
of all 19 declarations
FEMA Declarations Timeline
| Year | Declarations | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 2 | |
| 2016 | 1 | |
| 2011 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2008 | 1 | |
| 2007 | 2 | |
| 2006 | 1 | |
| 2005 | 1 | |
| 2004 | 1 | |
| 1996 | 2 | |
| 1994 | 1 | |
| 1990 | 1 | |
| 1972 | 1 | |
| 1971 | 1 | |
Show 1 earlier declaration years
| 1965 | 1 | |
Disaster Declarations
How the 19 FEMA declarations break into federal action codes (DR / EM / FM). Same DISTINCT grain as the table below.
Download these 19 declarations as CSV . FEMA source data is public domain; our derived presentation is CC0.
| DR# | Title | Type | Incident | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4907 | SEVERE STORMS, STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES, AND MUDSLIDES | DR | Severe Storm | 2026-04-07 |
| 4499 | COVID-19 PANDEMIC | DR | Biological | 2020-03-28 |
| 3429 | COVID-19 | EM | Biological | 2020-03-13 |
| 4258 | SEVERE WINTER STORMS, STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES, AND MUDSLIDES | DR | Severe Storm | 2016-02-17 |
| 1956 | SEVERE WINTER STORM, FLOODING, MUDSLIDES, LANDSLIDES, AND DEBRIS FLOWS | DR | Severe Storm | 2011-02-17 |
| 1824 | SEVERE WINTER STORM, RECORD AND NEAR RECORD SNOW | DR | Severe Storm | 2009-03-02 |
| 1733 | SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES, AND MUDSLIDES | DR | Severe Storm | 2007-12-08 |
| 1683 | SEVERE WINTER STORM AND FLOODING | DR | Severe Storm | 2007-02-22 |
| 1672 | SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES, AND MUDSLIDES | DR | Severe Storm | 2006-12-29 |
| 1632 | SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES, AND MUDSLIDES | DR | Severe Storm | 2006-03-20 |
| 3228 | HURRICANE KATRINA EVACUATION | EM | Coastal Storm | 2005-09-07 |
| 1510 | SEVERE WINTER STORMS | DR | Severe Storm | 2004-02-19 |
| 1107 | SEVERE STORMS AND HIGH WINDS | DR | Severe Storm | 1996-03-19 |
| 1099 | HIGH WINDS, SEVERE STORMS AND FLOODING | DR | Flood | 1996-02-09 |
| 1036 | THE EL NINO (THE SALMON INDUSTRY) | DR | Fishing Losses | 1994-08-02 |
| 853 | SEVERE STORMS & FLOODING | DR | Flood | 1990-01-24 |
| 319 | SEVERE STORMS & FLOODING | DR | Flood | 1972-01-21 |
| 301 | STORMS & FLOODING | DR | Flood | 1971-02-13 |
| 184 | HEAVY RAINS & FLOODING | DR | Flood | 1964-12-24 |
Storm Events in Oregon
Statewide NOAA context only. PlainHazard does not currently attribute these state totals to Clatsop County.
| Storm Type | Events | Fatalities | Injuries | Property Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Wind | 859 | 13 | 10 | $3.2B |
| Heavy Snow | 654 | 2 | 0 | $139.2M |
| Frost/Freeze | 391 | 0 | 0 | $0 |
| Wildfire | 311 | 15 | 38 | $15.1M |
| Flood | 244 | 3 | 1 | $68.4M |
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database State-level aggregated data, 2015-2025
NFIP Flood Insurance Claims
Total Claims
160
Total Paid
$2.0M
Avg Per Claim
$12.6K
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) OpenFEMA Claims Data
FEMA National Risk Index
Overall Risk
Relatively High
Score: 95.1/100
Expected Annual Loss
Relatively Moderate
$145.1M/year
Social Vulnerability
Relatively High
Community Resilience
Relatively High
Hazard Risk Breakdown
Tsunami Very High
Earthquake Relatively Moderate
Coastal Flooding Very High
Landslide Relatively Moderate
Volcanic Activity Very Low
Riverine Flooding Relatively Low
Wildfire Very Low
Heat Wave Relatively Low
Ice Storm Relatively Low
Strong Wind Relatively Low
Cold Wave Very Low
Avalanche Very Low
Lightning Very Low
Winter Weather Very Low
Drought Very Low
Tornado Very Low
Hail Very Low
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (NRI) Ratings reflect relative scores among all US counties. Data: hazards.fema.gov/nri
The model's sharpest exposure here: Tsunami
Tsunami exposure is narrow but severe, confined to low-lying coast and dependent on distant seismic events. It is the hazard where the gap between how rarely it occurs and how much it would cost is widest.
Worth noting for Clatsop County: the model and the federal record do NOT point at the same hazard. Tsunami carries the highest modeled rating (Very High), while the county's declaration history is led by Severe Storm. That is not a contradiction, the two measure genuinely different things. Declarations record federal ACTION, which requires damage costly enough to exceed state and local capacity; the Risk Index models EXPECTED annual loss across all 18 hazards whether or not any declaration ever followed. A hazard can be the county's largest modeled exposure and never once have driven a declaration.
National Risk Index ratings are modeled estimates of expected annual loss, not predictions of what will happen in any given year.
Data-matched county comparisons
Clatsop County's closest FEMA peer: Escambia County, FL
Comparisons use published FEMA declaration fields plus the National Risk Index composite for Clatsop County. Record similarity, not a safety rating.
Similar modeled NRI score
Clatsop County: NRI composite 95.1 (Relatively High).
Similar Major-disaster share
Clatsop County: 17 of 19 of its declarations are Major.
Closest declaration profiles
Clatsop County shows 19 FEMA declarations, led by Severe Storm.
How these peers are chosen
Cohort: Published U.S. county equivalents outside the source state or territory. Each metric keeps six ETL candidates; three unique destinations are shown after de-duplicating across axes. Declaration-volume ranking combines count and Major-disaster share and prefers a different leading incident type; Major-share ranks the Major fraction adjusted for volume; NRI ranks the modeled composite score only.
Retained FEMA snapshot feed for Clatsop County - capture-dated entries only.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by NRI score & FEMA declaration volume
Two PlainHazard-derived comparison paths for Clatsop County: nearest out-of-state National Risk Index composite and nearest FEMA declaration count (floor ≥5 records). Record similarity only, not a forecast of the next hazard.
Similar NRI composite
Nearest out-of-state counties by FEMA NRI score. This county: 95.1 (Relatively High).
Similar declaration volume
Nearest out-of-state counties by FEMA declaration count. This county: 19. NRI peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Further reading for this county
Understanding disaster data
Clatsop County's NFIP claims file (160 claims) and FEMA declaration history measure different federal records - this guide separates them from modeled NRI risk.
More PlainHazard guides
- Most disaster-prone counties - U.S. counties ranked by FEMA declaration totals.
- Understanding disaster data - declarations vs storm events vs NRI scores.
- Preparing for natural disasters - household checklist (not county-specific advice).
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most common disaster type in Clatsop County?
The most common disaster type in Clatsop County is Severe Storm, with 10 declarations. Other disaster types include Flood (5), Biological (2), Coastal Storm (1).
How does Clatsop County's FEMA declaration record compare with the Oregon average?
FEMA lists 19 declaration records for Clatsop County. That is 14% above the Oregon county mean of 16.6. Its count is also 8% below the national county mean of 20.7. A larger declaration history records more federal actions; it is not a forecast of the county's next hazard.
How many major FEMA disaster declarations has Clatsop County received?
Clatsop County has received 17 major disaster declarations, representing 89% of all 19 disaster declarations.
How many flood insurance claims has Clatsop County filed?
Clatsop County has 160 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims totaling $2.0M in payments, with an average of $12.6K per claim.
What was the worst year for disasters in Clatsop County?
The most active year for disaster declarations in Clatsop County was 1996, with 2 declarations. The county has FEMA disaster data spanning 1965 to 2026.
What is the FEMA National Risk Index score for Clatsop County?
According to the FEMA National Risk Index, Clatsop County, Oregon has an overall risk score of 95.1 out of 100 (Relatively High). Social vulnerability here rates Relatively High, while community resilience comes in at Relatively High. The Expected Annual Loss (EAL) score is Relatively Moderate, representing $145.1M in annualized losses.
Which natural hazard poses the greatest risk to Clatsop County?
The top hazard flagged by FEMA's NRI for Clatsop County as of the latest release is Tsunami (risk rating: Very High). Other significant hazards include Earthquake (Relatively Moderate) and Coastal Flooding (Very High). FEMA's modeled event frequency puts tsunami here at roughly once every 7 years, drawn from 32 historical events on record. FEMA derives these ratings from historical event frequency, the assets exposed, and the community's vulnerability profile.
Data Sources & Methodology
Disaster declaration data comes from the FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 API, which includes all federally declared disasters, emergencies, and fire management assistance grants.
Storm event data is sourced from the NOAA Storm Events Database (2015-2025), which tracks significant weather events including thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, and winter storms.
Flood insurance data comes from the FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) OpenFEMA claims dataset.
This data is provided for informational purposes only. FEMA disaster declarations represent federal response actions and may not capture all local emergencies or weather events.
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