Natural hazards · Larrabee

Larrabee, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Larrabee comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Larrabee?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Larrabee to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves39%Inland flooding32%Tornadoes14%Hail6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Larrabee faces

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

Cold waves

39% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Larrabee flood?

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

9paid claims since 1979

$250Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

2026-04-Flooding: 3 claims, $154K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Waupaca County.

Disasters that hit Larrabee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LarrabeeDeclared for Waupaca County only

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

Around Larrabee

Larrabee and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pellamostly inland floodingLow

Dupontmostly inland floodingLow

Bear Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Clintonvillemostly inland floodingLow

Mattesonmostly inland floodingLow

Larrabeemostly 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. Larrabee covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Larrabee’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Larrabee. 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 Larrabee total about $1.8M 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.