Wyoming

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$71.3B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

28.53

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 23 counties

Wildfire

78.07 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

70.17 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

58.73 Avg Risk Score

Avalanche

54.66 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

51.57 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

49.05 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

44.29 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

37.13 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 8 events

$18.7B

drought 3 events

$46.4B

wildfire 3 events

$6.2B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Laramie	80.59	Relatively Low	25.1%
2	Lincoln	69.07	Relatively Low	11.8%
3	Teton	68.5	Relatively Low	16.9%
4	Campbell	54.85	Relatively Low	23.7%
5	Fremont	53.48	Relatively Low	76.4%
6	Sublette	44.99	Very Low	12.2%
7	Albany	42.83	Very Low	25.3%
8	Natrona	40.66	Very Low	39.9%
9	Park	26.44	Very Low	10.7%
10	Goshen	26.25	Very Low	29.2%