Natural hazards · Washam

Washam, WY natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Washam to be higher than in 42% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Cold waves13%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Washam faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% 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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Washam flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Washam 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 Washam

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WashamDeclared 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. Washam 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 Washam’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Washam. 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.