Natural hazards · Sheridan

Sheridan, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sheridan comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sheridan?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sheridan to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches78%Inland flooding9%Earthquakes5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Sheridan faces

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

Avalanches

78% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sheridan flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Sheridan.

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Sheridan

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SheridanDeclared for Madison County only

Madison County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

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. Sheridan 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 Sheridan’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Sheridan. 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.