Natural hazards · Richfield

Richfield, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Richfield comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Richfield?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Richfield to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches37%Inland flooding26%Earthquakes22%Lightning8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Richfield faces

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

Avalanches

37% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Lightning

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesTsunamis

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 Richfield flood?

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

2paid claims since 1983

$18Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sevier County.

Disasters that hit Richfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RichfieldDeclared for Sevier County only

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