Natural hazards · Panguitch

Panguitch, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Panguitch comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2019.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Panguitch?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Panguitch to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding63%Avalanches15%Lightning8%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Panguitch faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Avalanches

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lightning

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtVolcanic 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 Panguitch flood?

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

1paid claims since 2019

$7Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20192026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Garfield County.

Disasters that hit Panguitch

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PanguitchDeclared for Garfield County only

Garfield County has had 5 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. Panguitch covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Panguitch’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Panguitch. 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 Panguitch total about $5.9M 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.