Natural hazards · Pinedale

Pinedale, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pinedale comes from avalanches, 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 Pinedale?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pinedale to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and inland flooding.

Avalanches48%Inland flooding21%Wildfire11%Earthquakes11%Lightning6%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Pinedale faces

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

Avalanches

48% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Wildfire

11% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesLandslidesStrong windVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesDroughtTsunamis

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 Pinedale flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sublette County.

Disasters that hit Pinedale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PinedaleDeclared for Sublette County only

Sublette County has had 2 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and droughts.

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