Natural hazards · Encampment

Encampment, WY natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Encampment?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Encampment to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding44%Avalanches34%Cold waves9%Lightning5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Encampment faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Avalanches

34% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lightning

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

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 Encampment flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Encampment 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 Encampment

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EncampmentDeclared 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. Encampment 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 Encampment’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Encampment. 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.