Natural hazards · Newcastle

Newcastle, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newcastle comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2005.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newcastle?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding28%Cold waves25%Hail21%Wildfire9%Tornadoes8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Newcastle faces

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

25% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 95 years in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Newcastle flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Newcastle, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2005

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20052026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Weston County.

Disasters that hit Newcastle

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewcastleDeclared for Weston County only

Weston County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe 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. Newcastle 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 Newcastle’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Newcastle. 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.