Natural hazards · Wheatland

Wheatland, WY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wheatland 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 Wheatland?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wheatland to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding43%Cold waves24%Tornadoes8%Wildfire7%Hail6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Wheatland faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Wheatland flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Platte County.

Disasters that hit Wheatland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WheatlandDeclared for Platte County only

Platte County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and 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. Wheatland 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 Wheatland’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Wheatland. 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.