Natural hazards · Carey

Carey, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Carey comes from avalanches, 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 Carey?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Carey to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches71%Inland flooding17%Wildfire8%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Carey faces

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

Avalanches

71% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Carey flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blaine County.

Disasters that hit Carey

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CareyDeclared for Blaine County only

Blaine County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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. Carey 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 Carey’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Carey. 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.