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Natural hazards · Berry

Berry, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Berry comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 2001. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Berry?

27
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Berry to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Cold waves13%Tornadoes11%Hail7%Everything else6%
By hazard

What Berry faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Berry flood?

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

8paid claims since 2001
$633Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20012026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Berry isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Dane County.
Disasters that hit Berry

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BerryDeclared for Dane County only
2018

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, and Landslides

$48K to the Town of Berry for repairs
2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$6K to the Town of Berry for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$10K to the Town of Berry for repairs
2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$4K to the Town of Berry for repairs
2000

Snow

$3K to the Town of Berry for repairs
2000

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$19K to the Town of Berry for repairs
Dane County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.
Around Berry

Berry and the towns around it

Cross Plains: High, mostly inland floodingSpringfield: Very low, mostly inland floodingCross Plains: Low, mostly inland floodingRoxbury: Low, mostly inland floodingBlack Earth: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMazomanie: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDane: Very low, mostly inland floodingMiddleton: Low, mostly inland floodingMiddleton: Very low, mostly inland floodingWestport: Low, mostly inland floodingVermont: Low, mostly inland floodingSpringdale: Low, mostly inland floodingWest Point: Very high, mostly inland floodingPrairie du Sac: High, mostly inland floodingSauk City: High, mostly inland floodingMazomanie: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPrairie du Sac: High, mostly inland floodingArena: High, mostly inland floodingDane: Very low, mostly inland floodingVienna: Very low, mostly inland floodingLodi: Very high, mostly inland floodingBerry: Low, mostly inland flooding BerryCross PlainsSpringfieldCross PlainsRoxburyBlack EarthMazomanieDane
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Cross Plainsmostly inland floodingHigh
Black Earthmostly inland floodingModerate
Mazomaniemostly inland floodingModerate
Berrymostly inland floodingLow
Cross Plainsmostly inland floodingLow
Roxburymostly inland floodingLow
Springfieldmostly inland floodingVery low
Danemostly inland floodingVery low
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. Berry covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Berry’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Berry. 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 Berry total about $2.4M 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.

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