Natural hazards · Stites

Stites, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stites comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Stites?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stites to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding45%Wildfire40%Avalanches13%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Stites faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

40% of expected damage

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

Avalanches

13% 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 Stites flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Stites 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 Stites

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Stites itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Stites.

Brought FEMA money into StitesDeclared for Idaho County only

2019

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$17K to the City of Stites for repairs

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$3K to the City of Stites for repairs

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. Stites 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 Stites’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Stites. 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.