Jackson Hole – Wyoming – Disaster Free?
Maybe not exactly but Wyoming ranked 5th for Distaster Resistant real estate locations from the MSN real estate site:
Here’s the link: http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=25641997>1=35006
Here’s what they had to say about Wyoming and Jackson Hole:
Wyoming
Want to live tax-free, but don’t want to deal with hurricanes? Welcome to Wyoming, where individual and corporate taxes are as nonexistent as oceans and gulf currents. Residents may wonder how their state can be considered so safe when it was declared a disaster area in July after a serious bout of flooding. Simple: With only eight major disasters declared since FEMA started keeping tabs back in 1953, the least-populous state (roughly 540,000, or fewer than in Tucson, Ariz., alone) takes calamities including floods, tornadoes and winter storms in stride. With all that cash savings and little worry about impending doom, Wyoming newcomers should feel free to splurge on such homes as Sotheby’s $7 million, four-bedroom, seven-acre spread in Jackson Hole with a stone fireplace, infinity-edge outdoor hot tub, heated concrete floors, six-car garage, guest house and a 30-foot window wall with a view of the Tetons.
All I can say is somehow Utah beat us? I beg to differ!