Cheyenne County, CO Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Cheyenne County, CO: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1955, NOAA has logged 98 tornado tracks crossing Cheyenne County - one about every 0.8 years, which lands it in our High band. Nationally, Cheyenne County ranks at the 98th percentile for tornado frequency. Colorado has 64 counties in this dataset; Cheyenne County ranks 10 of them by frequency.
Cheyenne County's EF4-5 history
Cheyenne County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 98 tracks split 77 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 Cheyenne County
For a Cheyenne County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Colorado-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses Cheyenne County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Colorado 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. Cheyenne County covers about 1,778 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. Cheyenne County has about 1,712 residents.