Natural hazards · Hortonia

Hortonia, WI natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hortonia to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding52%Cold waves23%Tornadoes12%Hail6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Hortonia faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

23% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 31 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Hortonia flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Outagamie County.

Disasters that hit Hortonia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HortoniaDeclared for Outagamie County only

Outagamie County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Hortonia

Hortonia and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Caledoniamostly inland floodingModerate

New Londonmostly inland floodingModerate

Mukwamostly inland floodingModerate

Dalemostly inland floodingLow

Ellingtonmostly inland floodingLow

Hortoniamostly inland floodingLow

Libertymostly inland floodingLow

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