Natural hazards · Lehi

Lehi, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lehi comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lehi?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lehi to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding37%Earthquakes32%Avalanches12%Wildfire10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Lehi faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

32% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Avalanches

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong 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 Lehi flood?

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

4paid claims since 1979

$61Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Utah County.

Disasters that hit Lehi

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LehiDeclared for Utah County only

Utah County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Lehi

Lehi and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Saratoga Springsmostly wildfiresVery high

Bluffdalemostly wildfiresHigh

Lehimostly inland floodingHigh

American Forkmostly earthquakesHigh

Highlandmostly earthquakesModerate

Drapermostly avalanchesModerate

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. Lehi covers 15 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lehi’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Lehi. 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 Lehi total about $28.9M 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.