Natural hazards · Brussels

Brussels, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brussels comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brussels?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brussels to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves43%Inland flooding34%Tornadoes10%Hail6%Strong wind5%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Brussels faces

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

Cold waves

43% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

HurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Brussels flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Door County.

Disasters that hit Brussels

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrusselsDeclared for Door County only

2000

Snow

$1K to the Town of Brussels for repairs

Door County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Brussels

Brussels and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brusselsmostly cold wavesVery low

Forestvillemostly cold wavesVery low

Gardnermostly inland floodingVery low

Unionmostly inland floodingVery low

Lincolnmostly 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. Brussels 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 Brussels’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Brussels. 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.