Natural hazards · Douglas

Douglas, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Douglas comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2025.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Douglas?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Douglas to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves36%Inland flooding35%Wildfire10%Tornadoes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Douglas faces

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

Cold waves

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Douglas flood?

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

2paid claims since 2025

$7Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20252026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

🏷️ 15% off flood insurance. Douglas is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 7) for its flood-proofing work.

Insurance rates: Converse County.

Disasters that hit Douglas

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DouglasDeclared for Converse County only

Converse County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Douglas covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Douglas’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Douglas. 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 Douglas total about $1.4M 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.