Natural hazards · Lind

Lind, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lind comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lind?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lind to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding39%Cold waves32%Tornadoes13%Hail7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Lind faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 23 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Lind flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Lind 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 Lind

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LindDeclared for Waupaca County only

2019

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$30K to the Town of Lind for repairs

2001

Flooding, Severe Storms and Tornadoes

$24K to the Town of Lind for repairs

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

Around Lind

Lind and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fremontmostly inland floodingModerate

Saxevillemostly inland floodingModerate

Bloomfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Lindmostly inland floodingLow

Daytonmostly inland floodingLow

Weyauwegamostly inland floodingVery low

Waupacamostly inland floodingVery low

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