Natural hazards · Granite

Granite, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Granite comes from avalanches, 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 Granite?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Granite to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches83%Wildfire10%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Granite faces

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

Avalanches

83% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamis

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

Flood insurance claims

Does Granite flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Granite 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 Granite

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GraniteDeclared for Salt Lake County only

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

Around Granite

Granite and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Granitemostly avalanchesHigh

Cottonwood Heightsmostly avalanchesModerate

Sandymostly earthquakesModerate

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