Natural hazards · Escalante

Escalante, UT natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Escalante to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding35%Heat waves26%Avalanches17%Lightning10%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Escalante faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Avalanches

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lightning

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtVolcanic 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 Escalante flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Garfield County.

Disasters that hit Escalante

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EscalanteDeclared for Garfield County only

Garfield County has had 5 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. Escalante 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 Escalante’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Escalante. 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.