Natural hazards · Mountain View

Mountain View, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mountain View 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 Mountain View?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mountain View to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and avalanches.

Inland flooding43%Avalanches20%Wildfire15%Earthquakes11%Cold waves7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Mountain View 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

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Avalanches

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Wildfire

15% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Mountain View flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Natrona County.

Disasters that hit Mountain View

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mountain ViewDeclared for Natrona County only

Natrona County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and floods.

Around Mountain View

Mountain View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Vista Westmostly inland floodingHigh

Mountain Viewmostly inland floodingModerate

Millsmostly inland floodingLow

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