Natural hazards · Dupont

Dupont, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dupont comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2010.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dupont?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dupont to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding52%Cold waves25%Tornadoes11%Hail6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Dupont 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

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

25% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Dupont flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Dupont, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 2010

$255Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

Biggest named events

2026-04-Flooding: 2 claims, $246K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Waupaca County.

Disasters that hit Dupont

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DupontDeclared for Waupaca County only

Waupaca County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Dupont

Dupont and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Grantmostly inland floodingLow

Dupontmostly inland floodingLow

Wyomingmostly inland floodingLow

Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Marionmostly inland floodingLow

Larrabeemostly 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. Dupont covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dupont’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Dupont. 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 Dupont total about $1.6M 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.