Natural hazards · Central Valley

Central Valley, UT natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Central Valley to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes78%Inland flooding14%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Central Valley faces

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

Earthquakes

78% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

14% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Central Valley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sevier County.

Disasters that hit Central Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Central ValleyDeclared for Sevier County only

Sevier County has had 7 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. Central Valley 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 Central Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Central Valley. 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.