Natural hazards · New Meadows

New Meadows, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in New Meadows 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 New Meadows?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in New Meadows to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire50%Inland flooding33%Avalanches16%Everything else2%

By hazard

What New Meadows faces

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

Wildfire

50% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Avalanches

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 New Meadows flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Adams County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit New Meadows

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into New MeadowsDeclared for Adams County only

Adams County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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