Natural hazards · Malad

Malad, ID natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Malad to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding44%Wildfire29%Earthquakes10%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Malad faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

29% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong 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 Malad flood?

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

Disasters that hit Malad

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaladDeclared for Oneida County only

Oneida County has had 1 natural disaster declared since 1953, most often 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. Malad 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 Malad’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Malad. 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.