Cache County, UT Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
How likely is a tornado in Cache County, UT?
Since 1981, NOAA has logged 4 tornado tracks crossing Cache County - one about every 18.9 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, Cache County ranks at the 15th percentile for tornado frequency. Utah has 29 counties in this dataset; Cache County ranks 17 of them by frequency.
Cache County's EF4-5 history
Cache County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 4 tracks split 4 weak and 0 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Cache County
For a Cache County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Utah-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
A direct hit is not required for Cache County to lose power - outbreak-wide outages across Utah regularly reach homes and businesses well outside the actual tracks. A battery bank covers that gap without a generator's fuel and venting needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Cache County covers about 1,165 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Cache County has about 145,487 residents.