Natural hazards · Cheyenne

Cheyenne, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cheyenne comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cheyenne?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cheyenne to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding31%Tornadoes23%Hail17%Strong wind9%Cold waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Cheyenne faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hail

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Cheyenne flood?

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

14paid claims since 1980

$111Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Barton County.

Disasters that hit Cheyenne

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CheyenneDeclared for Barton County only

Barton County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Cheyenne

Cheyenne and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cheyennemostly inland floodingModerate

Independentmostly inland floodingModerate

Beavermostly inland floodingModerate

Loganmostly inland floodingModerate

Lakinmostly inland floodingModerate

North Homesteadmostly hailModerate

South Homesteadmostly tornadoesModerate

Great Bendmostly tornadoesLow

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. Cheyenne covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Cheyenne total about $3.6M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.