Natural hazards · Notus

Notus, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Notus comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Notus?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Notus to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding56%Wildfire16%Heat waves11%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Notus faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Notus flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Canyon County.

Disasters that hit Notus

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NotusDeclared for Canyon County only

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