Natural hazards · Lessor

Lessor, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lessor comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lessor?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lessor to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves41%Inland flooding36%Tornadoes10%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Lessor faces

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

Cold waves

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Lessor flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Lessor 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 Lessor

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LessorDeclared for Shawano County only

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

Around Lessor

Lessor and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ciceromostly inland floodingLow

Lessormostly cold wavesVery low

Navarinomostly cold wavesVery low

Maple Grovemostly cold wavesVery low

Hartlandmostly 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. Lessor covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lessor’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lessor. 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 Lessor total about $2.6M 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.