Natural hazards · Cleveland

Cleveland, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cleveland 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 Cleveland?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cleveland to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding47%Cold waves32%Tornadoes10%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Cleveland faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

32% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Cleveland flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Taylor County.

Disasters that hit Cleveland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClevelandDeclared for Taylor County only

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

Around Cleveland

Cleveland and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Grovermostly inland floodingModerate

Jump Rivermostly inland floodingModerate

Clevelandmostly inland floodingLow

Pershingmostly inland floodingLow

Fordmostly inland floodingLow

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