Pacific County, WA Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Pacific County, WA: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1990, NOAA has logged 3 tornado tracks crossing Pacific County - one about every 25.6 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, Pacific County ranks at the 11th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 39 Washington counties in this dataset, Pacific County ranks 19 for how often a tornado touches down.
Pacific County's EF4-5 history
Pacific County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 3 tracks split 3 weak and 0 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Pacific County
For a Pacific County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Washington-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses Pacific County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Washington are common well beyond the tracked path. A battery-backup unit handles that without a generator's setup or fuel.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Pacific County covers about 933 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Pacific County has about 24,245 residents.