Natural hazards · Fort Hall

Fort Hall, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fort Hall comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fort Hall?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fort Hall to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves38%Inland flooding20%Wildfire19%Heat waves8%Earthquakes6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Fort Hall faces

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

Cold waves

38% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

19% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% 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 Fort Hall flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bannock County.

Disasters that hit Fort Hall

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fort HallDeclared for Bannock County only

Bannock County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Fort Hall 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 Fort Hall’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fort Hall. 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.