Natural hazards · Hixon

Hixon, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hixon 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 Hixon?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hixon to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding44%Cold waves34%Tornadoes9%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Hixon faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 23 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 Hixon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clark County.

Disasters that hit Hixon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HixonDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Hixon

Hixon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Maplehurstmostly inland floodingLow

Hixonmostly inland floodingLow

Witheemostly inland floodingLow

Owenmostly inland floodingLow

Longwoodmostly inland floodingLow

Hoardmostly inland floodingLow

Witheemostly inland floodingLow

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