Natural hazards · Auburn

Auburn, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Auburn comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Auburn?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Auburn to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding59%Cold waves21%Tornadoes9%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Auburn faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Auburn flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chippewa County.

Disasters that hit Auburn

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Chippewa County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Auburn itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into AuburnDeclared for Chippewa County only

Chippewa County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Auburn

Auburn and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sand Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Grantmostly inland floodingModerate

Dovremostly inland floodingModerate

Auburnmostly inland floodingModerate

New Auburnmostly inland floodingModerate

Bloomermostly inland floodingModerate

Cooks Valleymostly 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. Auburn 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 Auburn’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Auburn. 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.