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Natural hazards · Blooming Grove

Blooming Grove, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blooming Grove comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2013. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Blooming Grove?

3
Very low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blooming Grove to be higher than in 3% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves34%Inland flooding31%Tornadoes16%Hail8%Heat waves6%Everything else6%
By hazard

What Blooming Grove faces

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

Cold waves

34% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Hail

8% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Blooming Grove flood?

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

3paid claims since 2013
$739Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20132026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Blooming Grove 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 Blooming Grove

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Blooming GroveDeclared for Dane County only
2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$3K to the Town of Blooming Grove for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$9K to the Town of Blooming Grove for repairs
2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$4K to the Town of Blooming Grove for repairs
2000

Snow

$3K to the Town of Blooming Grove for repairs
2000

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$7K to the Town of Blooming Grove for repairs
Dane County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.
Around Blooming Grove

Blooming Grove and the towns around it

Madison: Very low, mostly inland floodingMonona: Very low, mostly inland floodingMcFarland: Low, mostly inland floodingDunn: Low, mostly inland floodingFitchburg: Very low, mostly inland floodingBurke: Very low, mostly inland floodingWestport: Low, mostly inland floodingMiddleton: Low, mostly inland floodingVerona: Very low, mostly inland floodingMiddleton: Very low, mostly inland floodingCottage Grove: Very low, mostly inland floodingSun Prairie: Very low, mostly inland floodingVerona: Very low, mostly inland floodingPleasant Springs: Low, mostly inland floodingStoughton: Low, mostly inland floodingRutland: Very low, mostly inland floodingBlooming Grove: Very low, mostly cold waves Blooming GroveMadisonMononaMcFarlandDunnFitchburg
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Dunnmostly inland floodingLow
McFarlandmostly inland floodingLow
Mononamostly inland floodingVery low
Madisonmostly inland floodingVery low
Fitchburgmostly inland floodingVery low
Blooming Grovemostly cold wavesVery 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. Blooming Grove covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Blooming Grove’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Blooming Grove. 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 Blooming Grove total about $1.3M 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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