Natural hazards · Marcellon

Marcellon, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Marcellon comes from hail, and overall the risk is very high 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 Marcellon?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Marcellon to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail40%Inland flooding31%Cold waves13%Tornadoes8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Marcellon faces

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

Hail

40% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Marcellon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Columbia County.

Disasters that hit Marcellon

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MarcellonDeclared for Columbia County only

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$24K to the Town of Marcellon for repairs

2000

Snow

$1K to the Town of Marcellon for repairs

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

Around Marcellon

Marcellon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fort Winnebagomostly inland floodingVery high

Marcellonmostly hailVery high

Wyocenamostly hailVery high

Scottmostly hailHigh

Buffalomostly cold wavesModerate

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