Natural hazards · Malta

Malta, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Malta comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Malta?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Malta to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire60%Inland flooding25%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Malta faces

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

Wildfire

60% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

25% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Malta flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cassia County.

Disasters that hit Malta

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaltaDeclared for Cassia County only

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