Natural hazards · Murtaugh

Murtaugh, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Murtaugh comes from wildfires, 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 Murtaugh?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Murtaugh to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire54%Inland flooding28%Heat waves5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Murtaugh faces

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

Wildfire

54% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Murtaugh flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Twin Falls County.

Disasters that hit Murtaugh

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MurtaughDeclared for Twin Falls County only

Twin Falls County has had 2 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. Murtaugh 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 Murtaugh’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Murtaugh. 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.