Cheyenne County, KS Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Cheyenne County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1951, NOAA has logged 48 tornado tracks crossing Cheyenne County - one about every 1.6 years, which lands it in our High band. Nationally, Cheyenne County ranks at the 86th percentile for tornado frequency. Within Kansas alone, Cheyenne County ranks 47 of 105 counties for tornado frequency.
Cheyenne County's EF4-5 history
Cheyenne County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 48 tracks split 38 weak and 5 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 Kansas-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
2,646 people live in Cheyenne County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Kansas than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Cheyenne County covers about 1,020 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 2,646 residents.