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Goshen County, Wyoming: hazard history

What federal records show has already happened here: disaster declarations, storms, and flood insurance claims. This is a record of the past. It is not a forecast and not a hazard score.

At a glance

Storm events recorded by NOAA
813
1996 to 2026
People killed and injured in those events
0 / 4
Deaths (direct and indirect) / injuries (direct)
Property damage NOAA recorded
$3.1M
Nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation
FEMA disaster declarations naming this county
5
1998 to 2020
NFIP flood insurance claims
12
1982 to 2016; a count, not a rate
NFIP payments on those claims
$51K
Nominal dollars

What this means

  • The event NOAA recorded most often here is Hail, with 388 records.
  • The costliest single record is Hail in 1999: $1.2M in property damage, in the dollars of that year.
  • FEMA has declared 5 disasters that named this county, most often for biological.
  • The worst year for flood insurance claims was 2016, with 5 claims.

What this can't tell you

  • What happens next. Past events do not set the odds of the next one.
  • Anything before 1996 from NOAA. That is when NOAA began recording every event type; earlier files hold only tornado, hail and wind, so they are left out on purpose.
  • Today's cost. Damage and payments are in the dollars of the year they happened.
  • A flood rate. NFIP counts claims but not how many homes were insured, and many flooded homes carry no flood insurance.
  • Earthquakes, wildfire perimeters or radar-detected hail. Those records are not tied to counties.

Federal disaster declarations (FEMA)

FEMA declared 5 disasters that named Goshen County between 1998 and 2020.

FEMA disaster declarations naming Goshen County, by incident type
Incident typeDisastersMost recent
Biological22020
Severe Storm22011
Severe Ice Storm11998

Most recent declarations

  • EM-3479 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
  • DR-4535 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
  • DR-4007 2011 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Flooding, And Landslides
  • DR-1351 2000 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storm
  • DR-1268 1998 · Severe Ice Storm · Wy - Winter Storm 10/5/98

Not counted above: 2 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Wyoming. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Storms recorded by NOAA, by type

NOAA storm event records for Goshen County, 1996 to 2026, by event type
Event typeRecordsDeathsInjuriesProperty damage
Hail38800$1.9M
High Wind9000$67K
Thunderstorm Wind7402$77K
Winter Storm6100$0
Heavy Snow4300$0
Tornado4002$787K
Flash Flood3400$243K
Winter Weather2900$0
Blizzard1800$10K
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600$0
Funnel Cloud600$0
Heavy Rain500$0
Cold/Wind Chill300$0
Heat200$0
Wildfire200$0
Freezing Fog100$0
Lightning100$1K

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone.

Year by year

NOAA storm event records in Goshen County each year. The busiest year was 2019, with 66 records.

Show the numbers for every year
NOAA storm event records in Goshen County by year
YearRecordsDeathsProperty damage
1996280$107K
1997140$72K
1998150$5K
1999270$1.6M
2000240$170K
200120$0
2002130$0
200390$0
200470$0
200580$73K
2006150$80K
200710$0
2008120$10K
2009260$80K
2010280$0
2011430$0
2012220$0
2013540$0
2014280$0
2015400$0
2016560$0
2017250$597K
2018220$0
2019660$0
2020290$0
2021310$30K
2022340$30K
2023530$135K
2024360$0
2025380$55K
202670$0

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Notable events

Costliest records

  1. Hail · Jun 26, 1999$1.2M
    NOAA name: GOSHEN · NOAA record 5703837
  2. Tornado · Jun 12, 2017$597K
    NOAA name: GOSHEN · 1 injury · NOAA record 721661
  3. Hail · Jun 26, 1999$250K
    NOAA name: GOSHEN · NOAA record 5703848
  4. Hail · Jun 26, 1999$100K
    NOAA name: GOSHEN · NOAA record 5703838
  5. Hail · May 6, 2000$100K
    NOAA name: GOSHEN · NOAA record 5145786

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

Flood insurance claims (NFIP)

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $51K on 12 claims in Goshen County from 1982 to 2016.

Years with the most NFIP claims in Goshen County
YearClaimsPaid
20165$37K
20102$9K
20151$320
20131$0
20111$4K

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

Hazard vulnerability analysis: the probability column for a facility in Goshen County

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

HazardProb.Basis, from the county record
Tornado340 NCEI events over 31 years (1.29/yr). No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Severe Thunderstorm3463 NCEI events over 31 years (14.94/yr). 2 federal disaster declarations naming the county.
Flood, External339 NCEI events over 31 years (1.26/yr). No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Snow Fall / Blizzard / Ice Storm3152 NCEI events over 31 years (4.90/yr). 1 federal disaster declaration naming the county.
High Wind (non-convective)390 NCEI events over 31 years (2.90/yr). No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Temperature Extremes221 NCEI events over 31 years (0.68/yr). No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Epidemic22 federal disaster declarations naming the county.
Hurricane / Tropical Storm1No events of this kind on the county's NCEI record over 31 years. No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Drought1No events of this kind on the county's NCEI record over 31 years. No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Wild Fire12 NCEI events over 31 years (0.06/yr). No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Earthquake1No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Landslide1No events of this kind on the county's NCEI record over 31 years. No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Tidal Wave / Tsunami1No events of this kind on the county's NCEI record over 31 years. No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Volcano1No events of this kind on the county's NCEI record over 31 years. No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.
Dam Inundation1No federal disaster declaration of this kind has named the county.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Goshen County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

How this page was made

  • Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
  • NOAA files some events by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Goshen County when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for Wyoming yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: GOSHEN, GOSHEN COUNTY. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 51% of Wyoming's NOAA records.
  • Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.

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