Natural hazards · Basin

Basin, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Basin comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Basin?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Basin to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Cold waves9%Landslides9%Earthquakes6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Basin faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Landslides

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamis

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 Basin flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Big Horn County.

Disasters that hit Basin

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BasinDeclared for Big Horn County only

Big Horn County has had 2 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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