Natural hazards · Price

Price, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Price comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Price?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Price to be higher than in 6% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding43%Earthquakes30%Lightning16%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Price faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Lightning

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windDroughtVolcanic 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 Price flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carbon County.

Disasters that hit Price

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PriceDeclared for Carbon County only

Carbon County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and droughts.

Around Price

Price and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

West Woodmostly inland floodingModerate

Carbonvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Pricemostly inland floodingVery low

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. Price covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Price’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Price. 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 Price total about $722K 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.