Natural hazards · Lingle

Lingle, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lingle 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 Lingle?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lingle to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding41%Cold waves21%Hail12%Tornadoes9%Wildfire7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Lingle faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Lingle flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Goshen County.

Disasters that hit Lingle

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LingleDeclared for Goshen County only

Goshen County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice 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. Lingle 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 Lingle’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lingle. 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.