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Riggins, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Riggins comes from inland flooding, 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 Riggins?

100
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Riggins to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding50%Wildfire33%Avalanches15%Everything else2%
By hazard

What Riggins faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

33% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Avalanches

15% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Riggins flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Riggins isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Idaho County.
Disasters that hit Riggins

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RigginsDeclared for Idaho County only
Idaho County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.
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. Riggins 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 Riggins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Riggins. 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.

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