Natural hazards · Rush Valley

Rush Valley, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rush Valley comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rush Valley?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rush Valley to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires.

Wildfire88%Inland flooding5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Rush Valley faces

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

Wildfire

88% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Rush Valley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tooele County.

Disasters that hit Rush Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Rush ValleyDeclared for Tooele County only

Tooele County has had 9 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. Rush Valley 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 Rush Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Rush Valley. 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.