Natural hazards · Beaver

Beaver, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beaver comes from avalanches, 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 Beaver?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beaver to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and earthquakes.

Avalanches32%Earthquakes22%Inland flooding18%Wildfire11%Winter weather6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Beaver faces

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

Avalanches

32% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Earthquakes

22% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Wildfire

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Winter weather

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 28 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Beaver flood?

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

Disasters that hit Beaver

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BeaverDeclared for Beaver County only

Beaver County has had 6 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. Beaver 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 Beaver’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Beaver. 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.