Klickitat County has alot to offer a doomsday prepper, bugout property for various reasons from topographic layouts and natural disaster weather patterns. plainly we dont have much compared the the rest of the US.
A bugout, bunker and retreat is a place of refuge for those in the survivalist subculture or movement. Survivalist buguts or retreats are intended to be self-sufficient, easily defended, and are generally located in lightly populated rural areas.
In recent years, advocacy of survivalist retreats or Bugout has had a strong resurgence after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001, the 2002 attacks and 2005 attacks in Bali, the 2004 Madrid train bombings in Spain, and the 2005 public transportation bombings in London. I wont even get into the riase in local crimes in the metropolitian cities.
Economic troubles emerging from the credit collapse triggered by the 2007 US subprime mortgage crisis have prompted a wider cross-section of the populace to modify their homes as well as establish dedicated survival retreats. James Wesley Rawles, the editor of SurvivalBlog was quoted by the New York Times in April 2008 that "interest in the survivalist movement 'is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s'”. He also stated that his blog's conservative core readership has been supplemented with "an increasing number of stridently green and left-of-center readers."
CommonBugout or retreat location selection parameters include light population density, plentiful water, arable land, good solar exposure for gardening and photovoltaics, situation above any flood plains, and a diverse and healthy local economy. Fearing rioting, looting and other unrest, many survivalists advocate selecting retreat locatins that are more than one tank of gasoline away from any major metropolitan region. Properties that are not in "channelized areas" or on anticipated "refugee lines of drift" are also touted.
One of the key goals of retreats is to be self-sufficient for the duration of societal collapse. To that end, plentiful water and arable soil are paramount considerations. Beyond that, a priority is situation on isolated, defensible terrain. Typically, retreats or bugout bunkers do not want their habitations or structures jeopardized by being within line of sight of any major highway.
Because of its low population density and diverse economy, James Wesley Rawles and Joel Skousen both recommend the Intermountain West region of the United States as a preferred region for relocation and setting up retreats or bugout bunkers.
A total of 537 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Klickitat County were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:
| Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count |
| Avalanche: | 0 | Blizzard: | 0 | Cold: | 1 | Dense Fog: | 0 | Drought: | 1 |
| Dust Storm: | 2 | Flood: | 68 | Hail: | 144 | Heat: | 0 | Heavy Snow: | 6 |
| High Surf: | 0 | Hurricane: | 0 | Ice Storm: | 0 | Landslide: | 0 | Strong Wind: | 10 |
| Thunderstorm Winds: | 132 | Tropical Storm: | 0 | Wildfire: | 34 | Winter Storm: | 0 | Winter Weather: | 0 |
| Other: | 139 | ||||||||