Natural hazards · Emmett

Emmett, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Emmett 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 Emmett?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Emmett to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding42%Wildfire40%Earthquakes8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Emmett faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

40% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong 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 Emmett flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gem County.

Disasters that hit Emmett

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EmmettDeclared for Gem County only

Gem County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

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