Natural hazards · Flaming Gorge

Flaming Gorge, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Flaming Gorge comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Flaming Gorge?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Flaming Gorge to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and lightning.

Avalanches55%Lightning22%Wildfire12%Inland flooding8%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Flaming Gorge faces

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

Avalanches

55% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lightning

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Wildfire

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Flaming Gorge flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Daggett County.

Disasters that hit Flaming Gorge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Flaming GorgeDeclared for Daggett County only

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