Natural hazards · Deseret

Deseret, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Deseret comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Deseret?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Deseret to be higher than in 13% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding31%Drought27%Earthquakes19%Wildfire9%Winter weather7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Deseret faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Drought

27% of expected damage

Recorded about 76 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

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

Winter weather

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsCold 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 Deseret flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Millard County.

Disasters that hit Deseret

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DeseretDeclared for Millard County only

Millard County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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. Deseret 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 Deseret’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Deseret. 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.