Natural hazards · Pleasant Grove

Pleasant Grove, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Grove comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Grove?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Grove to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes58%Inland flooding32%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Pleasant Grove faces

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

Earthquakes

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Pleasant Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Utah County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Grove

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pleasant Grove itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Pleasant Grove.

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant GroveDeclared for Utah County only

2011

Flooding

$158K to the City of Pleasant Grove for repairs

Utah County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Pleasant Grove

Pleasant Grove and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

American Forkmostly earthquakesHigh

Pleasant Grovemostly earthquakesHigh

Lindonmostly avalanchesModerate

Cedar Hillsmostly avalanchesLow

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. Pleasant Grove covers 8 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pleasant Grove. 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 Pleasant Grove total about $10.8M 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.