Albany County, WY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Albany County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1953, NOAA has logged 32 tornado tracks crossing Albany County - one about every 2.4 years, which lands it in our Elevated band. Nationally, Albany County ranks at the 71st percentile for tornado frequency. Wyoming has 23 counties in this dataset; Albany County ranks 9 of them by frequency.
Albany County's EF4-5 history
Albany County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 32 tracks split 24 weak and 3 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Albany County
For a Albany County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Wyoming-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses Albany County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Wyoming are common well beyond the tracked path. A battery-backup unit handles that without a generator's setup or fuel.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Albany County covers about 4,274 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Albany County has about 39,288 residents.