Natural hazards · Cedar Hills

Cedar Hills, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cedar Hills comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Cedar Hills?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cedar Hills to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches75%Inland flooding16%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Cedar Hills faces

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

Avalanches

75% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Cedar Hills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Utah County.

Disasters that hit Cedar Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Cedar HillsDeclared for Utah County only

Utah County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Cedar Hills

Cedar Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

American Forkmostly earthquakesHigh

Pleasant Grovemostly earthquakesHigh

Highlandmostly earthquakesModerate

Cedar Hillsmostly 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. Cedar Hills 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 Cedar Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Cedar Hills. 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.