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Homes with a basement in Hyrum
See every Hyrum home with a basement, from every brokerage, live from the MLS. Under the listings: the kinds of basement you will see, how to read the square feet, and what to check for water and radon.
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The newest Hyrum homes with a basement
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Four kinds
How much of it is under the ground?
Hyrum's county records count only the floors above the ground, so no list says which homes have a basement. The real question for each home is which kind it has. Pick one to see how it lives and what to look at.
Under the groundBuried on every side
What to look at
- How to tell. The listing shows no windows above the ground, or only small ones high on the wall.
- The light. Window wells are pits dug around the glass, and they let in a little light. Expect these rooms to be darker than the floors above.
- A bedroom down here. It needs a way out: a window or door big enough to climb through, with a well you can climb out of.
Under the groundWindows that sit above the ground
What to look at
- How to tell. One or two sides of the lower level show above the ground, so the lot has to slope.
- The light. The windows are full size, so the lower level can feel like the rest of the house.
- Snowmelt. These windows sit low, close to the ground. Hyrum's code says roof water and snow must land on your own lot, so check the slope and where the downspouts drain.
Under the groundA door out to the yard on one side
What to look at
- How to tell. A door leads straight out to the yard on the downhill side, and the back of the house shows above the ground.
- The slope. A walkout takes a lot that falls away. Hyrum's ground runs from about 4,540 feet in the northwest to about 4,970 at the east tip, but the lot's own slope is what counts. Walk the whole lot, not only the house, and see which way the ground falls.
- The door. A walkout lets you carry a couch straight in, and the space can work like its own floor.
Under the groundAbout half a flight down
What to look at
- What it is. Here the lower level is half a flight of stairs down, and part of it is below the ground.
- Read the listing. County records do not tell split-levels from other homes, so read each listing for how many stairs lead down. One listing may call this level a basement while another does not.
- Look at them. Open the photos on every Hyrum home for sale and look for the stairs.
The guide
What to know before you buy
The local read, reading the total, water and radon, the cost, before you tour and how it works
The local read
What a basement means in Hyrum
In shortEach home on this page has a basement, finished or not. No record counts them, so the work is reading each listing for what sits below the ground.
Start with the ground. Cache County's building office, which runs Hyrum's permits, lists the frost depth at 30 inches. Footings have to sit below that line. A basement goes much deeper than that, so it is a choice, not a must.
County records count only the floors above the ground. They show about two in three Hyrum homes with one floor and one in three with two. They do not say which homes have a basement. One place with a clear answer is Mount Sterling Farms on the west side, where OLO Builders' new homes come with basements. For every other home, the listing and the photos tell the story.
A basement adds space under the same roof. But a listing seldom says how much is finished, how much sits below the ground, or whether a bedroom down there has a way out. I read those lines before I pass a home to a partner agent I trust in Cache Valley. Together, we read the photos and ask about anything unclear before the offer is written.
Finished basement
Ready to use- Rooms with walls, floors, heat and lights
- Live in it from the first day
- Request the permit paperwork
Unfinished basement
Space to finish later- A concrete floor and bare walls
- Finish it your own way, on your own time
- Hyrum asks for a permit to finish it
Reading the total
How to read the square feet
A listing total may add the basement to the floors above it. The same number can hide two very different homes. Look at how many square feet sit above the ground, and how much of the rest is finished.
One-story home over a finished basement listed at 2,800 sq ft
Half of the total sits below the ground, and all of it is ready to use.
Two-story home over an unfinished basement listed at 3,300 sq ft
One third of the total is open space to finish later.
The same one-story house, no basement listed at 1,400 sq ft
On paper it is half the size, yet the space above the ground is the same.
All three are made-up examples, not real listings.
- Find the split. Check how many square feet sit above the ground and how many below. Compare homes on the space above first.
- Finished or not. A finished basement has its walls, floors and heat in place. An unfinished one has bare walls and a concrete floor.
- Above grade. You may see this term in a listing. It means above the ground, so those square feet leave out the basement.
Water and radon
A basement that stays dry and safe
A basement is only worth having when it stays dry. Here is what Hyrum's weather and maps ask of one.
Spring snowmelt
NOAA's Logan 5 SW Experimental Farm station, about 3 miles northwest of City Hall, records about 52 inches of snow in a normal year. December is the snowiest month, at about 13 inches. Hyrum's code says roof water and snow must land on your own lot. Check the slope and where the downspouts drain.
Wet ground and floods
FEMA's flood maps, dated May 9, 2023, mark Zone A along the reservoir and river ground, the canyon mouth and a strip east of Center. Shallow groundwater is not mapped for Hyrum, and not mapped does not mean low risk. Ask whether water has ever reached the basement floor.
Radon
Radon is a gas that seeps up from the soil, and you cannot see or smell it. In Hyrum's ZIP code, 84319, 48 percent of 141 state tests in 2019 ran at or above 4 picocuries per liter, the level where the EPA says to fix a home. Ask for a radon test result on the lowest level.
Cool in summer, cold in winter
July highs at that station average about 88 degrees, with nights near 55. A basement sits below the ground, so it tends to stay cooler. January lows average about 12, so ask if the basement has heat vents of its own.
Weather: NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals, Logan 5 SW Experimental Farm station, about 3 miles northwest of City Hall. Flood zones: FEMA maps dated May 9, 2023. Radon: Utah Division of Radiation Control, 2019 tests.
The cost
What a basement home costs in Hyrum
A basement adds living space under the same roof. A finished one is space you can use now. An unfinished one is space you finish later, and in Hyrum finishing a basement needs a zoning clearance and a building permit.
Census surveys of owners put the typical Hyrum home at about $422,600 (2020 to 2024). Owners gave that figure themselves, so it is not what a home sold for. What a basement adds depends on how much is finished and how well it was built, so compare homes by their finished square feet.
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Before you tour
The basement checklist
Take this to every showing. Tick each line as you check it. Your ticks stay on this device.
How it works
How we find you the right basement
My home base is Southern Utah, so for Hyrum I connect you with a local agent. Here is how a basement search goes.
Say how you want to use the space
A family room, a guest bedroom, storage, or room to finish over time? Full, daylight or walkout?
A partner agent joins in
A partner agent I trust in Cache Valley sets up the showings and goes down the stairs with you.
We read each basement
We check the square feet, how much is finished, any bedroom down there and any sign of water. Before the offer is written, the photos get a close read and anything unclear gets a question.
Your agent drafts the offer
My part is the homework and the loan side, from the start to closing day.
Where to look
Where to look for a basement
County records do not say which homes have a basement, so this map picks parts of town by age and builder. Each one comes with what to ask.
The west side
Mount Sterling Farms
OLO Builders builds here, at 675 West 50 North. The builder's site shows one-story and two-story homes with basements. Ask how much of each basement is finished.
The center
The old grid around Main Street
The oldest homes in town sit here, and the Census survey counts about 12 percent of Hyrum's homes from before 1940. In an old home, ask how old the foundation walls are and whether water has ever come in.
South of Main Street
Leo C. Nielsen and Canyon View
Two older neighborhoods with homes built from the early 1970s. Ask what was finished down below, when, and whether a permit was pulled.
The east side
Wasatch View and nearby
Wasatch View, Southridge Acres and Wapiti Bluff Estates hold homes built from the mid 1990s on. A mapped fault study zone and an old landslide touch the east side, so ask for a geotechnical report, an engineer's study of the ground.
The southeast side
Mountain View Estates
The newest homes in this part of town, added from 2018 into 2025. The city's papers show work on 1210 East in 2026. Ask the seller if the basement is finished and when the permit closed.
Read it
Read the listing, line by line
Each line of a basement listing points at one part of the house. Pick a line from the sample to light up that part and see what to ask.
2,800 sq ft
Above the ground1,400 of the 2,800
The total adds the basement. In the sample, half the total is under the ground. That half counts as space, but it is not the same as the main floor.
- Ask how many square feet sit above the ground.
- Does the total add the whole basement, or only the finished part?
- Line up homes by the square feet above the ground first.
70% finished
Finished belowAbout 980 of 1,400
In this sample, walls, floors and heat cover most of the basement. The storage room beside the stairs stays open, with the furnace and bare walls. Finish it later if you want more rooms.
- Which rooms are done, and which are still open?
- Did the builder or owner get a permit for the finish work? Ask for the papers.
- Is there space to finish what is left around the furnace?
5 bedrooms
Bedrooms with a way out4 of the 5
Bed 4 has a window you can climb through, set in a well you can climb out of. No outside wall touches the den, so it has no window. A listing may still count it as a bedroom.
- Could you get out through the window or door of each bedroom down here?
- Could you climb up and out of that well?
- Do your own bedroom count, room by room.
Full-height basement
Measure toThe lowest beam or duct
A basement with tall ceilings can feel like the floors above. A low beam or duct can still cut across a room. Here, the duct across the storage room and the den hangs below the family room ceiling.
- Take a tape measure from room to room.
- Measure at the lowest point.
- Stand in each space. Does it feel like a room?
Dry basement
Signs of waterAsk, then look
A dry basement is the goal, so check it yourself. Snowmelt and summer rain both send water to the walls. The ground should slope away, the downspouts should drain away, and each window well should have a cover or a drain.
- Check the lower walls for stains, white crust or a musty smell.
- Ask the seller if water ever came in.
- Ask for the radon test on the lowest level. Radon is a gas that seeps up from the soil.
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Need help reading a Hyrum basement?
Tell me your budget, the part of town and how you will use the space: full, daylight or walkout, finished or not. I connect you with a partner agent I trust in Cache Valley for the showings, and I stay on your file for the homework and the loan side. We check the square feet, the bedroom exits and any sign of water before an offer.
How it works in Hyrum
- I read the basement line, not only the total.The total square feet rarely say how much is finished or sits below the ground. I check before I pass a home on.
- Help from a partner agent nearby.I connect you with a partner agent I trust in Cache Valley for the showings, the offer and the closing. I stay on your file.
- A lender's eye on the listing.I am licensed in both real estate and lending. On any one purchase I take one role. If I am your lender, I can tell you early if a home could be hard to get a loan on.
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