Natural hazards · Big Water

Big Water, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Big Water 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 Big Water?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Big Water to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding61%Wildfire17%Heat waves13%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Big Water faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Wildfire

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Big Water flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kane County.

Disasters that hit Big Water

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Big WaterDeclared for Kane County only

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