Natural hazards · Park

Park, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Park comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Park?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Park to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches78%Inland flooding11%Wildfire6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Park faces

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

Avalanches

78% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Park flood?

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

8paid claims since 1983

$36Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Summit County.

Disasters that hit Park

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParkDeclared for Summit County only

Summit County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Park

Park and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brightonmostly avalanchesHigh

Snydervillemostly inland floodingHigh

Park Citymostly avalanchesModerate

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. Park covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Park’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Park. 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 Park total about $26.3M 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.