Natural hazards · Kanab

Kanab, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kanab comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2015.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kanab?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kanab to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding68%Heat waves23%Lightning5%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Kanab faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

23% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lightning

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Kanab flood?

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

1paid claims since 2015

$11Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20152026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kane County.

Disasters that hit Kanab

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KanabDeclared for Kane County only

Kane County has had 6 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. Kanab 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 Kanab’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Kanab. 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.