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County hazard profile

Wyoming, WV

West Virginia · pop. 21,372 · FIPS 54109

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$19M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Wyoming $19M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Low 67.37/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (67th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 76.56/100
national median ~50 higher than 77% of counties
Community resilienceVery Low 7.41/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Wyoming

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 923 flood-insurance claims totaling $14.2M in Wyoming since 1978. The costliest year was 2001 ($7.8M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $17,993 paid 1979: $38,953 paid 1980: $9,975 paid 1981: $59,682 paid 1982: $1,286 paid 1984: $26,112 paid 1985: $0 paid 1987: $22,202 paid 1989: $53,555 paid 1991: $10,507 paid 1992: $353 paid 1993: $3,701 paid 1996: $428,621 paid 1997: $18,964 paid 1998: $2,018 paid 1999: $2,174 paid 2001: $7,802,961 paid 2002: $26,568 paid 2003: $1,065,992 paid 2004: $340,866 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $21,139 paid 2007: $102,134 paid 2009: $1,912,186 paid 2010: $975,202 paid 2011: $0 paid 2012: $0 paid 2014: $5,152 paid 2015: $69,800 paid 2016: $20,000 paid 2017: $0 paid 2019: $755 paid 2021: $18,614 paid 2022: $7,801 paid 2025: $1,174,877 paid 2001 · $7.8M 1978 2025
$14.2M
total paid
$15,428
average claim
$305K
largest single claim
63%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Wyoming, WV and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Wyoming is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.