Fallon County, MT Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
How likely is a tornado in Fallon County, MT?
Since 1952, NOAA has logged 15 tornado tracks crossing Fallon County - one about every 5.1 years, which lands it in our Low band. Nationally, Fallon County ranks at the 40th percentile for tornado frequency. Within Montana alone, Fallon County ranks 11 of 56 counties for tornado frequency.
Fallon County's EF4-5 history
Fallon County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 15 tracks split 10 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 Fallon County
For a Fallon County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Montana-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
2,946 people live in Fallon County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Montana 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. Fallon County covers about 1,621 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. Fallon County has about 2,946 residents.