Laramie County, WY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
How likely is a tornado in Laramie County, WY?
Since 1953, NOAA has logged 124 tornado tracks crossing Laramie County - one about every 0.6 years, which lands it in our High band. Nationally, Laramie County ranks at the 99th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 23 Wyoming counties in this dataset, Laramie County ranks 1 for how often a tornado touches down.
Laramie County's EF4-5 history
Laramie County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 124 tracks split 111 weak and 7 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Laramie County
For a Laramie 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 Laramie 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. Laramie County covers about 2,686 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. Laramie County has about 101,783 residents.