Natural hazards · Riverside

Riverside, ID natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Riverside to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding51%Cold waves16%Earthquakes12%Heat waves10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Riverside faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year 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 Riverside flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bingham County.

Disasters that hit Riverside

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RiversideDeclared for Bingham County only

Bingham County has had 5 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. Riverside 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 Riverside’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Riverside. 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.