Natural hazards · Roberts

Roberts, ID natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Roberts?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Roberts to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding53%Cold waves27%Earthquakes8%Heat waves7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Roberts faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis

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 Roberts flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Roberts 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 Roberts

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RobertsDeclared 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. Roberts 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 Roberts’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Roberts. 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.