Natural hazards · Powell

Powell, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Powell comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Powell?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Powell to be higher than in 14% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves44%Inland flooding29%Earthquakes12%Lightning7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Powell faces

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

Cold waves

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireStrong windDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesLandslidesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Powell flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Park County.

Disasters that hit Powell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PowellDeclared for Park County only

Park County has had 2 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods.

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. Powell covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Powell’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Powell. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Powell total about $2.5M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.