Is Piute County, UT in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Piute County's flood hazard at the 3.4th percentile nationally — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 3 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Piute County
Piute County is one of the counties where FEMA's own denominator for mandated flood-zone structures is missing, so no compliance rate is shown rather than a guessed one — the data quality guide covers how common this is. Across all residential structures in Piute County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 1.7% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Piute County against the rest of the country
Piute County sits at rank 3043 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 3076 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Piute County, Utah is home to about 1,534 people across 758.21 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Piute County
Across all of Piute County's 879 residential structures, 15 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Piute County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Piute County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.