Natural hazards · Paris

Paris, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Paris comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Paris?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paris to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding35%Cold waves20%Tornadoes18%Strong wind9%Hail8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Paris faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Paris flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Paris, from FEMA’s records.

7paid claims since 1993

$87Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Severe flooding: 2 claims, $48K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant County.

Disasters that hit Paris

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParisDeclared for Grant County only

Grant County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Paris

Paris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Harrisonmostly inland floodingLow

Potosimostly inland floodingLow

Jamestownmostly inland floodingVery low

Parismostly inland floodingVery low

Smelsermostly inland floodingVery 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. Paris covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Paris’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Paris. 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 Paris total about $1.6M 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.