None of Utah's 22 rural hospitals screens at risk of closing — but only 28 homes are affordable and available for every 100 of its poorest renter households, 100 high-hazard dams sit below current safety standards, and a $14.9 billion water bill is coming due in the nation's second-driest state.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. Utah's profile is split: the sharpest need in the country on extremely low-income housing (28 homes per 100 households, 79% severely burdened) sits beside the strongest rural-hospital screen in the country (zero of 22 at risk) and one of its best bridge fleets (3% poor). The scores are set category by category from the printed measures, not averaged into a single state verdict.
Three honesty notes are printed rather than smoothed over. Hospitals: the two standard screens differ in kind, not just degree — CHQPR screens zero Utah rural hospitals at risk, while Chartis's screen (via Becker's, February 2025) places Utah in a 1%–9% band; both are printed, labelled, and never averaged, and Utah's headline stat is CHQPR's because it is a count, not a band. Dams: the suggested National Inventory / DamIndex totals for Utah could not be verified in a fetchable form, so the category prints the Utah Division of Water Resources' own counts (800+ dams, 200+ high-hazard, ≈100 below standard, $464M to fix) and prints no NID poor-condition share. Water: no Great Salt Lake or Colorado River dollar figure is printed — no sourced infrastructure-need figure for either was verified, so neither is turned into a measure.
Traffic is a metro story told with metro measures: TTI publishes a Salt Lake City–West Valley City row (58 hours per commuter), so both measures are that metro's, labelled as such; Reason Foundation's statewide table is not printed because no cleanly published Utah hours value could be verified from its current editions. Power has no ASCE energy grade to print for Utah — ASCE's 2025 state card covers 12 categories with no energy line — so the category carries the Gardner Institute's data-centre capacity counts, labelled capacity rather than consumption, with about 1,700 MW of the pipeline intending to self-supply stated on the measure. Broadband uses the NTIA-approved plan (≈30,000 locations, ≈$207M) rather than the draft's 31,716 locations, because the approved proposal is the plan of record; the difference is disclosed in the category's fine print.