Natural hazards · Heyburn

Heyburn, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Heyburn comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Heyburn?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Heyburn to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Heat waves10%Earthquakes8%Cold waves7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Heyburn faces

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

Inland flooding

67% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Heyburn flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Heyburn, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1997

$165Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Minidoka County.

Disasters that hit Heyburn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HeyburnDeclared for Minidoka County only

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