Natural hazards · Paul

Paul, ID natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Paul?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paul to be higher than in 3% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding37%Earthquakes20%Heat waves15%Cold waves14%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Paul faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Earthquakes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Paul flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Minidoka County.

Disasters that hit Paul

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PaulDeclared for Minidoka County only

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