Natural hazards · Hutchins

Hutchins, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hutchins comes from cold waves, 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 Hutchins?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hutchins to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves40%Inland flooding39%Tornadoes10%Strong wind5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Hutchins faces

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

Cold waves

40% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Hutchins flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Shawano County.

Disasters that hit Hutchins

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HutchinsDeclared for Shawano County only

Shawano County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Hutchins

Hutchins and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hutchinsmostly cold wavesLow

Almonmostly cold wavesLow

Menomineemostly cold wavesLow

Aniwamostly cold wavesLow

Birnamwoodmostly cold wavesLow

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