Natural hazards · Kamas

Kamas, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kamas comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1986.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kamas?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kamas to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches81%Inland flooding10%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Kamas faces

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

Avalanches

81% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Kamas flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Kamas, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1986

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19862026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Summit County.

Disasters that hit Kamas

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KamasDeclared for Summit County only

Summit County has had 8 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. Kamas covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kamas’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Kamas. 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 Kamas total about $12.7M 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.