Natural hazards · Aberdeen

Aberdeen, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Aberdeen comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Aberdeen?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Aberdeen to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding46%Cold waves20%Earthquakes11%Heat waves9%Wildfire6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Aberdeen faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Aberdeen flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Aberdeen.

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Aberdeen isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Bingham County.

Disasters that hit Aberdeen

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Bingham County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Aberdeen itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into AberdeenDeclared for Bingham County only

Bingham County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Aberdeen is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Aberdeen’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Aberdeen. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.