Natural hazards · Gooding

Gooding, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gooding comes from inland flooding, 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 Gooding?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gooding to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding73%Earthquakes8%Heat waves8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Gooding faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Gooding flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gooding County.

Disasters that hit Gooding

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GoodingDeclared for Gooding County only

Gooding 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. Gooding covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Gooding’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Gooding. 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 Gooding total about $1.2M 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.