Converse County, WY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Converse County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1955, NOAA has logged 49 tornado tracks crossing Converse County - one about every 1.6 years, which lands it in our High band. Nationally, Converse County ranks at the 87th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 23 Wyoming counties in this dataset, Converse County ranks 5 for how often a tornado touches down.
Converse County's EF4-5 history
Converse County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 49 tracks split 44 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 Converse County
For a Converse 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
13,766 people live in Converse County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Wyoming 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. Converse County covers about 4,255 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. Converse County has about 13,766 residents.