Lincoln County, WY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Lincoln County, WY: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1969, NOAA has logged 6 tornado tracks crossing Lincoln County - one about every 12.7 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, Lincoln County ranks at the 19th percentile for tornado frequency. Within Wyoming alone, Lincoln County ranks 20 of 23 counties for tornado frequency.
Lincoln County's EF4-5 history
Lincoln County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 6 tracks split 6 weak and 0 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Lincoln County
For a Lincoln 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
21,000 people live in Lincoln 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. Lincoln County covers about 4,075 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. Lincoln County has about 21,000 residents.