Is Klickitat County, WA in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Klickitat County's flood hazard at the 66.6th percentile nationally — below the national norm for flood hazard — driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 4 years. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Klickitat County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Klickitat County is one of the counties where FEMA's own denominator for mandated flood-zone structures is missing, so no compliance rate is shown rather than a guessed one — the data quality guide covers how common this is. Across all residential structures in Klickitat County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.2% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Klickitat County ranks
Klickitat County sits at rank 1098 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1645 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Klickitat County, Washington is home to about 24,124 people across 1,871.636 square miles of land.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Klickitat County
FEMA counts 12,945 residential structures in Klickitat County overall, 30 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Klickitat County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Klickitat County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.