Natural hazards · Hoback

Hoback, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hoback comes from avalanches, 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 Hoback?

High

vs. U.S. communities

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

Avalanches87%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Hoback faces

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

Avalanches

87% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesTsunamis

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Hoback flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Teton County.

Disasters that hit Hoback

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HobackDeclared for Teton County only

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

Around Hoback

Hoback and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hobackmostly avalanchesHigh

South Parkmostly avalanchesModerate

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