Natural hazards · Shoshone

Shoshone, ID natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Shoshone comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2012.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Shoshone?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Shoshone to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire42%Inland flooding39%Cold waves7%Heat waves5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Shoshone faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Wildfire

42% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamis

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Shoshone flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Shoshone, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2012

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20122026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Shoshone isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

Disasters that hit Shoshone

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Lincoln County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Shoshone itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into ShoshoneDeclared for Lincoln County only

Lincoln County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Shoshone is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Shoshone’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Shoshone. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.