Natural hazards · La Sal

La Sal, UT natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is La Sal?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in La Sal to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches40%Inland flooding23%Wildfire9%Landslides7%Drought5%Lightning5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What La Sal faces

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

Avalanches

40% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

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

Landslides

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 134 times a year in the area

Lightning

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesStrong wind

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 La Sal flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: San Juan County.

Disasters that hit La Sal

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for San Juan County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching La Sal itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into La SalDeclared for San Juan County only

San Juan County has had 4 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. La Sal 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 La Sal’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to La Sal. 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.