New Post’s biggest natural hazard is cold waves
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in New Post comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.
What stands out about New Post’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
What New Post faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Cold waves
Inland flooding
Does New Post flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in New Post. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
New Post 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.How exposed is New Post?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.
Rated higher than 1,435 of the 1,849 Wisconsin towns we cover.
New Post covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Sawyer County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching New Post itself in FEMA’s records.
Sawyer County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.
Get ready for what New Post actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Let faucets drip so pipes don’t freeze.
- Know where your water shutoff is.
- Never heat the house with the oven or a grill.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Keep a shovel, a blanket and snacks in the car.
- Clear snow from furnace and dryer vents.
- Check on older neighbors when the power goes out.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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New Post and its neighbors
New Post ranks 2nd calmest of 5 towns around it. Tap a town to see its hazards.
Rating = expected yearly storm and flood damage as a share of what’s there, vs. U.S. communities. Flood claims = paid federal flood insurance claims on record.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to New Post’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to New Post.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels. Across New Post, expected losses total about $2.4M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in New Post.
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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. Weather alerts: National Weather Service. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.