Natural hazards · Burley

Burley, ID natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Burley?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Burley to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Earthquakes14%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Burley faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Burley flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cassia County.

Disasters that hit Burley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BurleyDeclared for Cassia County only

Cassia County has had 3 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. Burley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Burley total about $2.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.