Natural hazards · Loa

Loa, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Loa comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Loa?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Loa to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding49%Earthquakes13%Heat waves11%Winter weather8%Lightning8%Landslides5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Loa faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Winter weather

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lightning

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Landslides

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsCold wavesWildfireStrong 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 Loa flood?

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

Disasters that hit Loa

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LoaDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 2 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and droughts.

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