Natural hazards · Clinton

Clinton, WI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clinton?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clinton to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves41%Inland flooding28%Tornadoes12%Hail7%Strong wind6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Clinton faces

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

Cold waves

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Clinton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Barron County.

Disasters that hit Clinton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClintonDeclared for Barron County only

Barron County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and tornadoes.

Around Clinton

Clinton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Arlandmostly cold wavesLow

Clintonmostly cold wavesVery low

Almenamostly cold wavesVery low

Barronmostly cold wavesVery low

Almenamostly cold wavesVery low

Cumberlandmostly 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. Clinton covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Clinton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Clinton. 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 Clinton total about $2.3M 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.