As public officials have urged Utahns to prepare for flooding by purchasing insurance policies, thousands may not have access to it and few communities participate in a federal program to make it more affordable.
melts. But as public officials have urged Utahns to prepare by purchasing insurance policies, thousands may not have access to it and few communities participate in a federal program to make it more affordable.
FEMA has identified a total of 25 municipalities in Utah that have a flood risk and don’t participate in NFIP. That number is higher than any of Utah’s neighboring states — Colorado is the next closest with 18. Not all of the municipalities that don’t participate are rural or small. Two cities in Weber County — Farr West and Hooper — aren’t part of NFIP. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 estimates, combined there were nearly 17,000 residents living in those communities, and both are expanding.
The cost of policies through NFIP tends to be much lower than those of private insurers because, as Pike put it, “they spread risk across a large population — homeowners across the country — while the risk pool for a private flood policy is the customers of that insurer.”
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