Natural hazards · Lenroot

Lenroot, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lenroot comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lenroot?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lenroot to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves63%Inland flooding31%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Lenroot faces

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

Cold waves

63% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesEarthquakesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Lenroot flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sawyer County.

Disasters that hit Lenroot

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LenrootDeclared for Sawyer County only

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

$61K to the Town of Lenroot for repairs

Sawyer County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Lenroot

Lenroot and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lenrootmostly cold wavesModerate

Round Lakemostly cold wavesModerate

Spider Lakemostly cold wavesModerate

Haywardmostly cold wavesLow

Cablemostly inland floodingLow

Barnesmostly inland floodingLow

Frog Creekmostly 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. Lenroot covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lenroot’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lenroot. 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 Lenroot total about $2.9M 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.