Natural hazards · Brian Head

Brian Head, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brian Head 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 Brian Head?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brian Head to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes31%Inland flooding30%Wildfire20%Drought8%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Brian Head faces

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

Earthquakes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

20% of expected damage

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

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 80 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Brian Head flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Iron County.

Disasters that hit Brian Head

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Brian HeadDeclared for Iron County only

Iron County has had 5 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. Brian Head 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 Brian Head’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Brian Head. 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.