Natural hazards · Rawlins

Rawlins, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rawlins comes from inland flooding, 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 Rawlins?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rawlins to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding40%Cold waves31%Lightning17%Earthquakes7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Rawlins faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lightning

17% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong wind

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Rawlins flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carbon County.

Disasters that hit Rawlins

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RawlinsDeclared for Carbon County only

Carbon County has had 3 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. Rawlins 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 Rawlins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Rawlins. 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.