Natural hazards · Bowler

Bowler, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bowler comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bowler?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bowler to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves45%Inland flooding34%Tornadoes9%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Bowler faces

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

Cold waves

45% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bowler flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Shawano County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Bowler

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BowlerDeclared for Shawano County only

Shawano County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Bowler

Bowler and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Almonmostly cold wavesLow

Morrismostly cold wavesLow

Bowlermostly cold wavesLow

Senecamostly cold wavesLow

Bartelmemostly cold wavesLow

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. Bowler 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 Bowler’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Bowler. 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.