Natural hazards · Gordon

Gordon, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gordon comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2020.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Gordon?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gordon to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves46%Inland flooding42%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Gordon faces

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

Cold waves

46% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Gordon flood?

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

1paid claims since 2020

$112Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20202026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

Disasters that hit Gordon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GordonDeclared for Douglas County only

Douglas County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Gordon

Gordon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Barnesmostly inland floodingLow

Solon Springsmostly cold wavesLow

Highlandmostly cold wavesLow

Oaklandmostly cold wavesLow

Gordonmostly cold wavesVery low

Wascottmostly cold wavesVery low

Summitmostly cold wavesVery low

Bennettmostly cold wavesVery low

Dairylandmostly 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. Gordon covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Gordon’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Gordon. 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 Gordon total about $3.3M 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.