Natural hazards · Benson

Benson, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Benson comes from earthquakes, 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 Benson?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Benson to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes47%Inland flooding30%Wildfire8%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Benson faces

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

Earthquakes

47% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Benson flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cache County.

Disasters that hit Benson

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BensonDeclared for Cache County only

Cache County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and droughts.

Around Benson

Benson and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Loganmostly earthquakesModerate

Bensonmostly earthquakesModerate

Petermostly avalanchesLow

Amalgamostly avalanchesLow

Cachemostly avalanchesLow

Wellsvillemostly avalanchesLow

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. Benson covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Benson’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Benson. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Benson total about $1.9M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.