Natural hazards · Milford

Milford, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Milford comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Milford?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Milford to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches37%Inland flooding19%Earthquakes14%Wildfire13%Drought6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Milford faces

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

Avalanches

37% 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

19% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Wildfire

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 72 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic 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 Milford flood?

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

1paid claims since 1983

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

Disasters that hit Milford

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MilfordDeclared for Beaver County only

Beaver 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. Milford 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 Milford’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Milford. 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.