Natural hazards · Baggs

Baggs, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Baggs comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1984.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Baggs?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Baggs to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches52%Inland flooding28%Cold waves8%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Baggs faces

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

Avalanches

52% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Baggs flood?

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

8paid claims since 1984

$71Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19842026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carbon County.

Disasters that hit Baggs

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BaggsDeclared for Carbon County only

Carbon County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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