Jun 24, 2011
The first extended warm spell of the summer provided an active period of snowmelt in the Wind River Basin. A cool, wet spring and early summer had kept snowpack in the surrounding mountains unseasonably high. At the basin headwaters, the snowpack at the Togwotee Pass SNOTEL was unprecedented, surpassing that of the historic flood year of 1997. The result of the melting snow was record flooding along the lower Wind River from Kinnear to Riverton and downstream to Boysen Reservoir. More informatio
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 325563). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Fremont County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.