Washakie County, WY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Washakie County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1975, NOAA has logged 8 tornado tracks crossing Washakie County - one about every 9.5 years, which lands it in our Low band. Nationally, Washakie County ranks at the 23rd percentile for tornado frequency. Within Wyoming alone, Washakie County ranks 18 of 23 counties for tornado frequency.
Washakie County's EF4-5 history
Washakie County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 8 tracks split 7 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 Washakie County
For a Washakie 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
7,662 people live in Washakie 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. Washakie County covers about 2,239 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. Washakie County has about 7,662 residents.