Bingham County, Idaho: hazard history

FEMA declared 7 disasters that named Bingham County between 1976 and 2020.

Most recent declarations

• DR-4534 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• EM-3467 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4310 2017 · Flood · Severe Winter Storms And Flooding
• EM-3244 2005 · Hurricane · Hurricane Katrina
• DR-1341 2000 · Fire · Wildfires
• DR-1177 1997 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Snowmelt, Land/mud Slides, Flooding
• DR-505 1976 · Flood · Dam Collapse, Flooding

Not counted above: 14 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Idaho. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone. A storm filed against a forecast zone is counted in every county that zone covers, with the whole storm's damage; do not add these figures across counties.

NOAA storm event records in Bingham County each year. The busiest year was 2024, with 65 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Thunderstorm Wind · Feb 14, 2000$2.5M
   NOAA name: Bingham County · 2 injuries · NOAA record 5132169
2. Tornado · Feb 14, 2000$2.2M
   NOAA name: Bingham County · NOAA record 5133078
3. Hail · Jun 6, 2009$1.0M
   NOAA name: Bingham County · NOAA record 182379
4. Flood · Feb 4, 2017$917K
   NOAA name: Bingham County · NOAA record 682481
5. High Wind · Dec 17, 2025$700K
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 1309556

Deadliest records

1. Winter Weather · Jan 21, 20191 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 802239
2. Winter Weather · Feb 21, 20191 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 810291
3. Avalanche · Mar 15, 20201 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 881590
4. Cold/Wind Chill · Oct 23, 20201 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 925737
5. Winter Weather · Nov 13, 20201 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 928851

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $99K on 31 claims in Bingham County from 1979 to 2022.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Bingham County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events against a county and others against an NWS forecast zone, and publishes a code for both. Records are counted as Bingham County by that code — county records by the county's own FIPS code, zone records through the National Weather Service's published list of which counties each zone covers. No name matching is involved. Of 595 records, 257 were filed against this county and 338 against a forecast zone covering it. A zone storm is counted in every county its zone covers, and its damage figure is the whole storm's, not this county's share — NOAA does not publish that split. So these figures describe this county; they must not be added up across counties. Left out: 15% of Idaho's NOAA records, which are marine zones or zones NWS does not map to a county.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.