Natural hazards · Isabelle

Isabelle, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Isabelle comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Isabelle?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Isabelle to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes21%Strong wind11%Cold waves8%Hail7%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Isabelle faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Isabelle flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pierce County.

Disasters that hit Isabelle

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into IsabelleDeclared for Pierce County only

Pierce County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Isabelle

Isabelle and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wacoutamostly inland floodingHigh

Hartlandmostly inland floodingModerate

Maiden Rockmostly inland floodingModerate

Red Wingmostly inland floodingModerate

Isabellemostly inland floodingModerate

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