Natural hazards · Chase

Chase, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chase comes from inland flooding, 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 Chase?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chase to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding44%Cold waves30%Tornadoes12%Lightning6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Chase faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

30% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 88 years in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

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 Chase flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Oconto County.

Disasters that hit Chase

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChaseDeclared for Oconto County only

Oconto County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Chase

Chase and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Morganmostly inland floodingLow

Chasemostly inland floodingLow

Little Suamicomostly inland floodingLow

Angelicamostly cold wavesVery low

Pulaskimostly inland floodingVery low

Pittsfieldmostly 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. Chase covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Chase’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Chase. 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 Chase total about $2.5M 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.