Natural hazards · Eland

Eland, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Eland comes from cold waves, 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 Eland?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Eland to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves44%Inland flooding34%Tornadoes10%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Eland faces

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

Cold waves

44% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Eland flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Shawano County.

Disasters that hit Eland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ElandDeclared for Shawano County only

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

Around Eland

Eland and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Norriemostly inland floodingLow

Elandmostly cold wavesLow

Birnamwoodmostly cold wavesLow

Wittenbergmostly cold wavesLow

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