Natural hazards · Colburn

Colburn, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Colburn comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Colburn?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Colburn to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding52%Cold waves24%Tornadoes9%Hail7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Colburn faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Colburn flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Adams County.

Disasters that hit Colburn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ColburnDeclared for Adams County only

Adams County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Colburn

Colburn and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Leolamostly inland floodingHigh

Romemostly inland floodingHigh

Colburnmostly inland floodingHigh

Richfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Big Flatsmostly inland floodingHigh

Hancockmostly inland floodingModerate

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