Natural hazards · Kinnickinnic

Kinnickinnic, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kinnickinnic comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1998. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kinnickinnic?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kinnickinnic to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding45%Tornadoes23%Strong wind11%Cold waves11%Hail6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Kinnickinnic faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 33 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

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% 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 Kinnickinnic flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Kinnickinnic, from FEMA’s records.

6paid claims since 1998

$155Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Croix County.

Disasters that hit Kinnickinnic

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Kinnickinnic itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Kinnickinnic.

Brought FEMA money into KinnickinnicDeclared for St. Croix County only

2001

Flooding, Severe Storms and Tornadoes

$10K to the Town of Kinnickinnic for repairs

St. Croix County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Kinnickinnic

Kinnickinnic and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

River Fallsmostly inland floodingModerate

Kinnickinnicmostly inland floodingModerate

River Fallsmostly inland floodingLow

Pleasant Valleymostly inland floodingLow

Troymostly inland floodingLow

Warrenmostly 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. Kinnickinnic covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kinnickinnic’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Kinnickinnic. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Kinnickinnic total about $4.1M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.