Natural hazards · Nephi

Nephi, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Nephi comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Nephi?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nephi to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes61%Inland flooding16%Winter weather6%Heat waves5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Nephi faces

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

Earthquakes

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Winter weather

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Nephi flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Juab County.

Disasters that hit Nephi

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NephiDeclared for Juab County only

Juab County has had 7 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. Nephi 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 Nephi’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Nephi. 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.