Natural hazards · Amery

Amery, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Amery comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Amery?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Amery to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding33%Cold waves31%Tornadoes15%Strong wind9%Hail7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Amery faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

31% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 47 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Amery flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Amery.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Amery isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Polk County.

Disasters that hit Amery

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Amery itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Amery.

Brought FEMA money into AmeryDeclared for Polk County only

2001

Flooding, Severe Storms and Tornadoes

$6K to the City of Amery for repairs

Polk County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and tornadoes.

Around Amery

Amery and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Amerymostly inland floodingLow

Lincolnmostly inland floodingLow

Black Brookmostly inland floodingLow

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Amery is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Amery’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Amery. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.