Natural hazards · Leeds

Leeds, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leeds comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high 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 Leeds?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leeds to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding43%Wildfire35%Avalanches16%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Leeds faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Wildfire

35% of expected damage

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

Avalanches

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Leeds flood?

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

1paid claims since 2015

$14Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20152026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Washington County.

Disasters that hit Leeds

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeedsDeclared for Washington County only

Washington County has had 12 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. Leeds 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 Leeds’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Leeds. 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.