Natural hazards · Reliance

Reliance, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Reliance comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Reliance?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Reliance to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Cold waves13%Earthquakes5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Reliance faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Reliance flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sweetwater County.

Disasters that hit Reliance

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RelianceDeclared for Sweetwater County only

Sweetwater County has had 2 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Reliance 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 Reliance’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Reliance. 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.