Natural hazards · Emigration Canyon

Emigration Canyon, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Emigration Canyon comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Emigration Canyon?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Emigration Canyon to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and wildfires.

Avalanches78%Wildfire17%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Emigration Canyon faces

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

Avalanches

78% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

17% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Emigration Canyon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Salt Lake County.

Disasters that hit Emigration Canyon

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Salt Lake County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Emigration Canyon itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Emigration CanyonDeclared for Salt Lake County only

Salt Lake County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Emigration Canyon

Emigration Canyon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Emigration Canyonmostly avalanchesVery high

Salt Lake Citymostly earthquakesVery high

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. Emigration Canyon 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 Emigration Canyon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Emigration Canyon. 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.