Daggett County, UT: Tornado Risk and Shelter Cost
Daggett County, UT: what NOAA's tornado record says
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has recorded 2 tornado tracks touching Daggett County since 1999 - about one every 38.5 years on average. That puts it in our Minimal band nationally. Against the rest of the country, that is the 7th percentile for frequency. Utah has 29 counties in this dataset; Daggett County ranks 23 of them by frequency.
Has Daggett County ever had a violent tornado?
Nothing violent in Daggett County's file: 2 tracks total, topping out at significant (EF2-3) strength on 0 of them, zero at EF4-5.
Paying for it, if Daggett County's history says you should
A storm shelter or in-residence safe room typically runs $2,890-$13,280 nationally, around $7,645 for a common single-family installation. No state-administered rebate program specific to Utah was confirmed for this site - FEMA's own Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants fund 75% of an approved safe room nationwide, but only some states currently run a homeowner-facing application on top of that.
The gap a shelter does not cover
956 people live in Daggett County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Utah than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
County-level, not address-level
Treat this as a county-wide figure, not a prediction for one address. Daggett County covers about 697 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. And records from before the 1990s, NOAA notes, undercount weaker tornadoes in areas with less storm-spotting coverage at the time. Daggett County has about 956 residents.