How much flood risk does Uintah County actually carry?
Uintah County lands at the 10.3th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Very Low" territory — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 2 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
Homes with a federally backed mortgage inside Uintah County's mapped high-risk flood zone (the Special Flood Hazard Area, or SFHA) are legally required to carry an NFIP flood policy. In practice, 12.2% of them do — 40 active policies against 328 structures FEMA counts in that zone, leaving a real compliance gap. Across all residential structures in Uintah County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.5% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Uintah County compares nationally
Uintah County sits at rank 2837 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1227 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Uintah County, Utah is home to about 38,307 people across 4,482.881 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Uintah County
Across all of Uintah County's 10,620 residential structures, 54 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 Uintah County's numbers. The guide to what the Special Flood Hazard Area actually means explains why the mandatory-insurance rule exists and who it applies to.