Natural hazards · Gordon

Gordon, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gordon comes from inland flooding, 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 Gordon?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gordon to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding48%Cold waves45%Everything else7%

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.

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

45% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesEarthquakesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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?

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

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: Ashland County.

Disasters that hit Gordon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GordonDeclared for Ashland County only

Ashland County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Gordon

Gordon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Shanagoldenmostly inland floodingLow

Jacobsmostly inland floodingLow

Gordonmostly inland floodingLow

Morsemostly inland floodingLow

Namakagonmostly inland floodingLow

Marengomostly 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 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 Gordon’s own flood-insurance community; 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.

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.