Natural hazards · Bellevue

Bellevue, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bellevue comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2019.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bellevue?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bellevue to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Cold waves15%Tornadoes8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Bellevue faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bellevue flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Bellevue, from FEMA’s records.

4paid claims since 2019

$163Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20192026

Biggest named events

March 2019 Midwest Flooding: 4 claims, $163K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Brown County.

Disasters that hit Bellevue

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BellevueDeclared for Brown County only

Brown County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Bellevue

Bellevue and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Allouezmostly inland floodingHigh

Bellevuemostly inland floodingModerate

Ledgeviewmostly inland floodingLow

Green Baymostly 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. Bellevue covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Bellevue total about $10.2M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.