Natural hazards · Willard

Willard, UT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Willard comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Willard?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Willard to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches46%Inland flooding17%Earthquakes15%Wildfire8%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Willard faces

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

Avalanches

46% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Earthquakes

15% of expected damage

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

Wildfire

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Willard flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Box Elder County.

Disasters that hit Willard

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WillardDeclared for Box Elder County only

Box Elder County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and droughts.

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. Willard 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 Willard’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Willard. 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.