Natural hazards · Elwood

Elwood, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Elwood 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 Elwood?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Elwood to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes74%Inland flooding14%Strong wind5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Elwood faces

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

Earthquakes

74% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

14% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 12% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Elwood flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Box Elder County.

Disasters that hit Elwood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ElwoodDeclared for Box Elder County only

Box Elder County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and droughts.

Around Elwood

Elwood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Elwoodmostly earthquakesHigh

Deweyvillemostly earthquakesLow

Honeyvillemostly earthquakesLow

Tremontonmostly earthquakesLow

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. Elwood covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Elwood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Elwood. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Elwood total about $2.1M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.