Natural hazards · Rigby

Rigby, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rigby comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rigby?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rigby to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and earthquakes.

Cold waves32%Earthquakes31%Inland flooding19%Heat waves13%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Rigby faces

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

Cold waves

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

19% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Rigby flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Rigby

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RigbyDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 4 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. Rigby covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rigby’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Rigby. 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 Rigby total about $3.1M 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.