Baker County, Oregon: hazard history

FEMA declared 12 disasters that named Baker County between 1964 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• FM-5654 2026 · Fire · Fox Fire
• FM-5516 2024 · Fire · Durkee Fire
• DR-4499 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• EM-3429 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• FM-5114 2015 · Fire · Dry Gulch Fire
• FM-5097 2015 · Fire · Cornet And Windy Ridge Fire Complex
• FM-2657 2006 · Fire · Foster Gulch Fire Complex
• EM-3228 2005 · Coastal Storm · Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
• DR-1510 2003 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storms
• DR-1160 1996 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storms, Land And Mudslides, Flooding

Not counted above: 41 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Oregon. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone.

NOAA storm event records in Baker County each year. The busiest year was 2024, with 12 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Flash Flood · Sep 8, 2017$250K
   NOAA name: BAKER · NOAA record 713246
2. Flood · Jun 2, 2010$10K
   NOAA name: BAKER · NOAA record 234972

Deadliest records

1. Avalanche · Feb 11, 20142 deaths
   NOAA name: BAKER · 2 injuries · NOAA record 488081
2. Winter Weather · Dec 4, 20101 death
   NOAA name: BAKER · 1 injury · NOAA record 274007

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $5K on 4 claims in Baker County from 1984 to 2017.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2025 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Baker County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Baker County when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for Oregon yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: BAKER, Baker. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 59% of Oregon's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.
• This county's NOAA record is short (under 100 records, under 10 with damage, or under 10 years), so this page is not offered to search engines. It is still accurate.