Uinta County, WY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Uinta County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1950, NOAA has logged 3 tornado tracks crossing Uinta County - one about every 25.6 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, Uinta County ranks at the 11th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 23 Wyoming counties in this dataset, Uinta County ranks 23 for how often a tornado touches down.
Uinta County's EF4-5 history
Uinta County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 3 tracks split 2 weak and 1 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Uinta County
For a Uinta 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
Power loss after a tornado outbreak in Wyoming often reaches homes the storm itself never touched. A battery-backup unit covers the outage without the fuel and venting a generator needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Uinta County covers about 2,082 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. Uinta County has about 20,621 residents.