Natural hazards · Rexburg

Rexburg, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rexburg comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rexburg?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rexburg to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves31%Inland flooding28%Earthquakes23%Heat waves8%Lightning7%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Rexburg faces

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

Cold waves

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windDroughtVolcanic 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 Rexburg flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Rexburg, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 1979

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Rexburg

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RexburgDeclared for Madison County only

Madison County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Rexburg covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rexburg’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Rexburg. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Rexburg total about $10.6M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.