Natural hazards · Kemmerer

Kemmerer, WY natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kemmerer?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kemmerer to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Lightning8%Cold waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Kemmerer faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lightning

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Kemmerer flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

Disasters that hit Kemmerer

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KemmererDeclared for Lincoln County only

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

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