Natural hazards · Ketchum

Ketchum, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ketchum 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 Ketchum?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ketchum to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding36%Ice storms20%Tornadoes14%Cold waves11%Heat waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Ketchum faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 23 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Ketchum flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Craig County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Ketchum

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KetchumDeclared for Craig County only

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$756 to the Town of Ketchum for repairs

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$42K to the Town of Ketchum for repairs

Craig County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

Around Ketchum

Ketchum and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ketchummostly inland floodingVery high

Langleymostly inland floodingVery high

Grand Lake Townemostly inland floodingVery high

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