Natural hazards · Friendship

Friendship, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Friendship comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Friendship?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Friendship to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves36%Inland flooding32%Tornadoes12%Hail9%Strong wind5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Friendship faces

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

Cold waves

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Friendship flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Friendship 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 Friendship

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Friendship itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Friendship.

Brought FEMA money into FriendshipDeclared for Adams County only

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

9 households applied for aid $34K aid approved $7K to the Village of Friendship for repairs

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

16 households applied for aid $26K aid approved $4K to the Village of Friendship for repairs

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

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