Utah

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$63.3B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

42.5

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 29 counties

Wildfire

82.96 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

75.44 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

68.87 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

67.16 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

65.79 Avg Risk Score

Avalanche

57.9 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

55.62 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

41.45 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

drought 5 events

$54.9B

wildfire 3 events

$4.7B

flooding 1 events

$1.5B

severe-storm 1 events

$2.2B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Salt Lake	98.95	Relatively High	45.1%
2	Utah	96.82	Relatively High	25.6%
3	Washington	95.7	Relatively High	38.8%
4	Weber	94.21	Relatively Moderate	34.7%
5	Davis	93.8	Relatively Moderate	6.8%
6	Cache	86.19	Relatively Moderate	34.8%
7	Iron	84.6	Relatively Moderate	41.1%
8	Tooele	77.7	Relatively Low	17.7%
9	Box Elder	76.49	Relatively Low	12.2%
10	Summit	69.36	Relatively Low	5.1%