Natural hazards · Moorcroft

Moorcroft, WY natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Moorcroft to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding43%Cold waves22%Hail13%Wildfire10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Moorcroft faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Wildfire

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesIce 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 Moorcroft flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Crook County.

Disasters that hit Moorcroft

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MoorcroftDeclared for Crook County only

Crook County has had 5 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. Moorcroft 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 Moorcroft’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Moorcroft. 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.