Natural hazards · Maeser

Maeser, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maeser comes from inland flooding, 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 Maeser?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maeser to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding56%Wildfire13%Lightning11%Earthquakes5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Maeser faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Wildfire

13% of expected damage

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

Lightning

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanches

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 Maeser flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Uintah County.

Disasters that hit Maeser

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaeserDeclared for Uintah County only

Uintah County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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