Natural hazards · Menominee

Menominee, WI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Menominee?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Menominee to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves51%Inland flooding23%Lightning14%Tornadoes6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Menominee faces

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

Cold waves

51% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Lightning

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 24 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

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 Menominee flood?

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

Disasters that hit Menominee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MenomineeDeclared for Menominee County only

Menominee County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Menominee

Menominee and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wescottmostly inland floodingHigh

Richmondmostly inland floodingLow

Underhillmostly inland floodingLow

Howmostly inland floodingLow

Hutchinsmostly cold wavesLow

Mountainmostly inland floodingLow

Menomineemostly cold wavesLow

Red Springsmostly cold wavesLow

Bartelmemostly cold wavesLow

Wolf Rivermostly cold wavesVery low

Norwoodmostly cold wavesVery low

Polarmostly cold wavesVery low

Evergreenmostly 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. Menominee covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Menominee’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Menominee. 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 Menominee 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.