Natural hazards · Kanosh

Kanosh, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kanosh comes from earthquakes, 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 Kanosh?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kanosh to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and wildfires.

Earthquakes31%Wildfire30%Inland flooding21%Drought9%Winter weather5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Kanosh faces

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

Earthquakes

31% of expected damage

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

Wildfire

30% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 82 times a year in the area

Winter weather

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 20 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Kanosh flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Millard County.

Disasters that hit Kanosh

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KanoshDeclared for Millard County only

Millard County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

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